The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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Page 6
... better it is to dare mighty things , to win glorious tri- umphs , 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 ...
... better it is to dare mighty things , to win glorious tri- umphs , 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 ...
Page 11
... better not have begun the task at all . It is worse than idle to say that we have no duty to perform , and can leave to their fates the islands we have conquered . Such a course would be the course of infamy . It would be fol- lowed at ...
... better not have begun the task at all . It is worse than idle to say that we have no duty to perform , and can leave to their fates the islands we have conquered . Such a course would be the course of infamy . It would be fol- lowed at ...
Page 25
... better the excess Than the defect ; better the more than less . Longfellow's love of peace was profound ; but he was a man , and a wise man , and he knew that cowardice does not promote peace , and that even the great evil of war may be ...
... better the excess Than the defect ; better the more than less . Longfellow's love of peace was profound ; but he was a man , and a wise man , and he knew that cowardice does not promote peace , and that even the great evil of war may be ...
Page 35
... better than ever before ; and so they ought to be with Germany . Recently affairs in Samoa have been straightened out , although there we suffered from the worst of all types of government , one in which three powers had a joint ...
... better than ever before ; and so they ought to be with Germany . Recently affairs in Samoa have been straightened out , although there we suffered from the worst of all types of government , one in which three powers had a joint ...
Page 42
... better , or do not care to see things better . There are also men who are slightly disordered mentally , or who are cursed with a moral twist which makes them champion reforms less from a desire to do good to others than as a kind of ...
... better , or do not care to see things better . There are also men who are slightly disordered mentally , or who are cursed with a moral twist which makes them champion reforms less from a desire to do good to others than as a kind of ...
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