ld be. In one of his stories he states that a man was killed by his own horse that he thought was well trained. The horse had never bucked before yet one day he got thrown off and landed on his head, killing him instantly. In another story he tells how a friend was out hunting and had to fight off Sioux Indians. There are many other stories that tell how hard it was to live on the frontier. Having these experiences made Roosevelt s greater man and greater leader for our country. In the document "The Strenuous Life" Roosevelt reaches out to Americans saying we have to do our duty. What is our duty? According to Roosevelt the fathers and sons of our nation "must" do hard labor and be proud to be doing it, and the mothers and daughters should be doing housework and tending to children. He sternly says, "When men fear work or fear righteous war, when women fear motherhood, they tremble on the brink of doom". He goes on to say that not only as individuals do we have a duty, but as a nation we do. He says that we strive as a country, that we need to make a history for ourselves. Even though war is detrimental and so much is lost we will strive and learn from it the end. Kind of like a quote I heard before "attack before you are attacked". It is saying that we need to get rid of the filth and evil threats from other countries before they try to attack us. We as a nation have responsibility to help Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. "If we undertake the solution there is of course, always danger that we may not solve it right; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it right". In this he means that we need to take action or we would be seen as a weak country and he a weak president; as strong a leader Roosevelt was he would not stand to be even associated with the work weak. He had some good ideas in how we should interface with other the countries. He beli...
