 As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,...  American Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt - Page 201by Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 542 pages
...through the truth. And the French revolution wrote upon our earth, in letters of blood and fire, that as it is with the individual, so it is with the nation ; that to trust in the wisdom of man, to rely upon the understanding of man, to leave the mysterious... | |
 | 1841 - 278 pages
...silver wanted to effect this enormous exchange is about 20?. a day. Here it is petty cash indeed ! As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation, which is simply a number of individuals ; and that the coin of the country is merely its petty cash... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - 1851 - 516 pages
...through the truth. And the French Revolution wrote upon our earth, in letters of blood and fire, that as it is with the individual, so it is with the nation ; that to trust in the wisdom of man, to rely upon the understanding of man, to leave the mysterious... | |
 | 1872 - 502 pages
...seated on his throne, the Church had relapsed into a second state of barbarism. He was convinced that as it is with the individual so it is with the nation, the truest and highest civilization must proceed from Christianity. But the outward organizations of... | |
 | 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....the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take... | |
 | 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....the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take... | |
 | 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....the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take... | |
 | 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....the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 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....the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take... | |
 | 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....the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take... | |
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