 Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.  Great Speeches and how to Make Them - Page 351by Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 391 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace' was the... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Union h'ad believed that peace was the... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1902 - 360 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. If in 18G1 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the end of all things, and war and strife... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...has' a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat^/ If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the... | |
 | Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 388 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." ] 1 For other extracts from this speech, see Appendix A, p. 297. CHAPTER... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 588 pages
...has a glorious history. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Uniom had believed that peace was at the'... | |
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