Download or read book American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political (Classic Reprint) written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political We feel that the doer is better than the critic and that the man who strives stands far above the man who stands aloof, whether he thus stands aloof because of pessimism or because of sheer weakness. To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that success can only come to the player who hits the line hard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.