| New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation....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
...above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation....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
...and above all it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. As it is with the individual so it is with the nation....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
...above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. " As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation....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
...ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. NATION WITH GLORIOUS HISTORY. "As it is with the individual so it is with the nation....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... | |
| Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. "As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation....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
...and above all it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation....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
...nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even...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
...nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even...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'... | |
| Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 412 pages
...fit subjects for the scorn of all men and women who are themselves strong and brave and high-minded. As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation....dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even tho checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer... | |
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