Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most active of American historic figures. He dominated his era as a military leader of the ''Rough Riders'' in the Spanish American War, as a prosecutor, as President, as a naturalist, and as a writer.
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Theodore Roosevelt began this 1899 speech with his thesis: “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.” He discusses how the many hardships of his life shaped him for the better. Roosevelt believed that... SEE MORE