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Quotation from Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt) by Theodore Roosevelt
“We have not been obliged to fight for our existence against any alien race; and yet our life has called for the vigor and effort without which the manlier and hardier virtues wither away”
Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt), First paragraph (Project Gutenberg #4938)
A sentence in the period vocabulary of struggle and manly virtue; students should read its racial phrasing as a document of 1905 attitudes.
Citation: "We have not been obliged to fight for our existence against any alien race; and yet our life has called for the vigor and effort without which the manlier and hardier virtues wither away" — Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt), First paragraph (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id theodore-roosevelt-inaugural-address-q5)
