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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph quotation signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), n.d. 1 page, oblong, on a card with rounded corners, ink slightly faded.
"The only life worth living is the life of effort, of toil for a worthy end."
The exact source of the epigram has not been traced, but it strongly suggests the general tenor and tone of Roosevelt's famous essay "The Strenuous Life," a lecture delivered to The Hamilton Club in Chicago on 10 April 1899 (and later collected in book form, see lot 167). The principal theme of that speech was a call for the nation to unhesitatingly shoulder its role as a colonial power, especially in Cuba and the Philippines. "...our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor. The twentieth century looms before us big with the fate of many nations."
"The only life worth living is the life of effort, of toil for a worthy end."
The exact source of the epigram has not been traced, but it strongly suggests the general tenor and tone of Roosevelt's famous essay "The Strenuous Life," a lecture delivered to The Hamilton Club in Chicago on 10 April 1899 (and later collected in book form, see lot 167). The principal theme of that speech was a call for the nation to unhesitatingly shoulder its role as a colonial power, especially in Cuba and the Philippines. "...our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor. The twentieth century looms before us big with the fate of many nations."