Hidden fields
Books Books
" Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. "
THE AMERICANISM OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Page 207
by HERMANN HAGEDORN - 1923
Full view - About this book

Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. BORIS PASTERNAK, Doctor Zhivogo, p. 297 (1958). 1121 Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die;...life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The Great Adventure (vol. 19 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.),...
Limited preview - About this book

Cultures of United States Imperialism

Amy Kaplan, Donald E. Pease - 1993 - 686 pages
...essential to a successful life." Youth mirrors Nature, its pair across the room. The next stage is Manhood: "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die...shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life." Opposite is its spiritual pair, the State: "Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport...
Limited preview - About this book

Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner - 1994 - 646 pages
...essential to a successful life." Youth mirrors Nature, its pair across the room. The next stage is Manhood: "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die...shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Opposite is its spiritual pair, the State: "Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport...
Limited preview - About this book

Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism

Marianna Torgovnick - 1994 - 310 pages
...in the immense Roosevelt rotunda, they can read the great man's celebration of power and manliness: "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die...shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. ... I want to see you game, boys. . . . Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are...
Limited preview - About this book

The Senator and the Sharecropper's Son: Exoneration of the Brownsville Soldiers

John Downing Weaver - 1997 - 308 pages
...wrapped up in my boys at the front, and I am not thinking in terms of New York State conditions."18 "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die," he wrote; "and none are fit to live who have shrunk from the joy of life. Both life and death are parts...
Limited preview - About this book

The Wisdom of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt - 2003 - 244 pages
...soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. Autobiography, 1913 Life Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die;...shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. "The Great Adventure," Cosmopolitan, October 1918; in The Great Adventure, 1918 Malefactors of Great...
Limited preview - About this book

Theodore Roosevelt: An American Original

Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - 2004 - 214 pages
...overlooking Sagamore Hill. Soon after he died, Teddy's last book was published. In it was the passage, "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die....and death are parts of the same Great Adventure." What an adventure it had been for Teddy Roosevelt, a true American original. Bibliography Brands, HW...
Limited preview - About this book

The Haraway Reader

Donna Jeanne Haraway - 2004 - 372 pages
...essential to a successful life." Youth mirrors Nature, its pair across the room. The next stage is Manhood: "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die...shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life." Opposite is its spiritual pair, the State: "Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport...
Limited preview - About this book

Freedom Is for Those Willing to Defend It: Stories of Men in War

Helene Ensign Maw - 2002 - 518 pages
...excellent firing scores. 2 The battalion name was changed to 2 nd Battalion, 222 nd Field Artillery. ONLY THOSE ARE FIT TO LIVE WHO DO NOT FEAR TO DIE;...SHRUNK FROM THE JOY OF LIFE AND THE DUTY OF LIFE. Theodore Roosevelt, qtd. in Inscriptions of a Nation, Clint W. Ensign VIETNAM CHAPTER 10 SERGEANT ROGER...
Limited preview - About this book

The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When

Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pages
...quoted by John Kennedy and many others. After his son Quentin was killed in World War I, TR wrote, "Only those are FIT to live who do not fear to die . . . ," a phrase later requisitioned by Douglas MacArthur. On the other hand, Roosevelt did not call...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF