The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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... 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 not victory nor defeat ...
... 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 not victory nor defeat ...
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... mighty days , let us , the chil- dren of the men who carried the great Civil War to a triumphant conclusion , praise the God of our fathers that the ignoble counsels of peace were rejected ; that the suffering and loss , the Upblackness ...
... mighty days , let us , the chil- dren of the men who carried the great Civil War to a triumphant conclusion , praise the God of our fathers that the ignoble counsels of peace were rejected ; that the suffering and loss , the Upblackness ...
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... mighty lift that thrills " stern men with em- pires in their brains " -all these , of course , shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties ; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs ; shrink from ...
... mighty lift that thrills " stern men with em- pires in their brains " -all these , of course , shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties ; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs ; shrink from ...
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... mighty nations . But the peoples that do not expand leave , and can leave , nothing behind them . It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world . The Arab wrecked the civilization of the ...
... mighty nations . But the peoples that do not expand leave , and can leave , nothing behind them . It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world . The Arab wrecked the civilization of the ...
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... mighty civilized races which have not lost the fighting instinct , and which by their expansion are grad- ually bringing peace into the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world hold sway . LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE AMONG ...
... mighty civilized races which have not lost the fighting instinct , and which by their expansion are grad- ually bringing peace into the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world hold sway . LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE AMONG ...
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