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      APPENDIX A

      BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM FAMOUS ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT

      "If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill."

      "All honor must be paid to the architects of our material prosperity; to the captains of industry who have built our factories and our railroads; to the strong men who toil for wealth with brain or hand; for great is the debt of the nation to these and their kind. But our debt is still greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln, a soldier like Grant."

      "A man's first duty is to his own home, but he is not thereby excused from doing his duty to the state; for if he fails in this second duty it is under the penalty of ceasing to be a freeman."

      --_Extracts from "The Strenuous Life."_

      "Is America a weakling to shrink from the work that must be done by the world's powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager and fearless eyes, and rejoices, as a strong man to run the race."

      --_Extract from Speech seconding the Nomination of William McKinley for President._

      "Poverty is a bitter thing, but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits, the pursuit of mere pleasure."

      "Our interests are at bottom common; in the long run we go up or go down together."

      "The first essential of civilization is law. Anarchy is simply the hand-maiden and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. Law and order, enforced by justice and by strength, lie at the foundation of civilization."

      --_Extracts from a Speech delivered at Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 2, 1901._

      "We hold work, not as a curse, but as a blessing, and we regard the idler with scornful pity."

      "Each man must choose, so far as the conditions allow him, the path to which he is bidden by his own peculiar powers and inclinations. But if he is a man, he must in some way or shape do a man's work."

      "It is not given to us all to succeed, but it is given to us all to strive manfully to deserve success."

      "We cannot retain the full measure of our self-respect if we do not retain pride in our citizenship."

      --_Extracts from an Address on "Manhood and Statehood."_

      "The true welfare of the nation is indissolubly bound up in the welfare of the farmer and wage-worker; of the man who tills the soil, and of the mechanic, the handicraftsman, and the laborer. The poorest motto upon which an American can act is the motto of 'some men down,' and the safest to follow is that of 'all men up.'"

      --_Extract from Speech delivered at the Dedication of the Pan-American Fair Buildings._

      "The men we need are the men of strong, earnest, solid character--the men who possess the homely virtues, and who to these virtues add rugged courage, rugged honesty, and high resolve."

      --_Extract from Speech delivered upon the Life of General Grant._

      APPENDIX B

      LIST OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S WRITINGS

      Books:

      The Naval War of 1812, 2 volumes. (1882.) The Winning of the West, 6 volumes. (1889-1896.) Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. (1885.) Hunting Trips on the Prairie. (Companion volume to that above. 1885.) The Wilderness Hunter. (1893.) Hunting the Grisly. (Companion volume to that above. 1893.) The Rough Riders. (1899.) Life of Oliver Cromwell. (1900.) The Strenuous Life--Essays and Addresses. (1900.) American Ideals. (1897.) Administration--Civil Service. (1898.) Life of Thomas Hart Benton. (1887.) New York. (Historic Towns Series. 1891.) Life of Gouverneur Morris. (1888.) Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. (1888.) Essays on Practical Politics. (1888.)

      Written by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge:

      Hero Tales from American History. (1895.)

      Written by Theodore Roosevelt and G.B. Grinnell:

      Trail and Camp Fire. (1896.) Hunting in Many Lands. (1896.)

      Principal Magazine Articles:

      Admiral Dewey. (McClure's Magazine.) Military Preparedness and Unpreparedness. (Century Magazine.) Mad Anthony Wayne's Victory. (Harper's Magazine.) St. Clair's Defeat. (Harper's Magazine.) Fights between Iron Clads. (Century Magazine.) Need of a New Navy. (Review of Reviews.)

      APPENDIX C

      CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT FROM 1858 TO 1904

      1858. October 27. Theodore Roosevelt born in New York City, son of Theodore Roosevelt and Martha (Bullock) Roosevelt.

      1864. Sent to public school, and also received some private instruction; spent summers at Oyster Bay, New York.

      1873. Became a member of the Dutch Reformed Church; has been a member ever since.

      1876. September. Entered Harvard College. Member of numerous clubs and societies.

      1878. February 9. Death of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.

      1880. June. Graduated from Harvard College; a Phi Beta Kappa man. September 23. Married Miss Alice Lee, of Boston, Massachusetts. Travelled extensively in Europe; climbed the Alps; made a member of the Alpine Club of London.

      1881. Elected a member of the New York Assembly, and served for three terms in succession.

      1884. Birth of daughter, Alice Lee Roosevelt. Death of Mrs. Alice (Lee) Roosevelt, Mr. Roosevelt's first wife. Death of Mrs. Martha (Bullock) Roosevelt, Mr. Roosevelt's mother. Made Delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention that nominated James G. Blaine for President.

      1885. Became a ranchman and hunter.

      1886. Ran for office of mayor of New York City, and was defeated by Abram Hewitt. Spent additional time in hunting. December 2. Married Edith Kermit Carew, of New York City.

      1888. Birth of son, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. September. Grand hunt in the Selkirk Mountains.

      1889. May. Appointed by President Harrison a member of the Civil Service Commission; served for six years, four under President Harrison and two under President Cleveland.

      1890. Birth of son, Kermit Roosevelt.

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