 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform them! We cannot, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is, whether we shall meet... | |
 | Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 514 pages
...does not often fight. A life in which there is not a frequent fight is a life of "ignoble ease." " If we are to be a really great people, we must strive...in good faith to play a great part in the world," and playing a great part is performing those deeds of blood which above everything bring "national... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 pages
...that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform them! We cannot, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform them! We cannot, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is, whether we shall meet... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...helmeted queen among nations. We of this generation do not have to face a task such as that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we...ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. In 1898 we could not help being brought face to face with the problem of war with Spain. All we could... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform them ! We cannot, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform them. We cannot, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet... | |
 | Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 406 pages
...no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. . . . If we are to be really a great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. . . . We cannot leave the islands we have conquered to their fates.... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1902 - 360 pages
...that our fathers faced, but we have our tasks, and woe to us if we fail to perform them ! We cannot, if we would, play the part of China, and be content...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...the end to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities ^Jlf we are to be a really great people, we must strive...in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet... | |
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... until suddenly we should find, beyond a shadow of question, what China has already found, that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which... 
