 Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, 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 neither victory nor...  The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life - Page 2by Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 19 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 412 pages
...day." When such words can be truthfully written of a nation, that nation is rotten to the heart 's core. When men fear work or fear righteous war, when...dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even tho checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1911 - 376 pages
...nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If, in 1861, the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was at... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1913 - 444 pages
...nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Col. Roosevelt first compares the individual with the nation. He then employs... | |
 | Carleton B. Case - 1918 - 174 pages
...nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even...because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If, in 1861, the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was at... | |
 | Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 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....because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. • •••••• No country can long endure if its foundations are... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1920 - 296 pages
...to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. As it is with the individual so it is with the nation....because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1 86 1 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1920 - 424 pages
...individual so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has BO history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious...take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy s much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.... | |
 | Bradley Gilman - 1921 - 948 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....because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 360 pages
...to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. As it is with the individual so it is with the nation....because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission - 1959 - 246 pages
...from Theodore Roosevelt's famous speech before the Hamilton Club in Chicago in 1899: Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even...take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "Theodore... | |
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