If 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 them well or ill. American Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt - Page 297by Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| Theodore Roosevelt - 2003 - 244 pages
...will have to be done by some stronger race, because we will have shown ourselves weaklings. Ibid. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive...ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. "The Strenuous Life," speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899 Our country shall not... | |
| John B. Judis - 2010 - 266 pages
...the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive...play a great part in the world. . . . We cannot avoid the responsibilities that confront us in Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines." 43 He invoked... | |
| Richard Harding Davis - 2006 - 276 pages
...the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive...ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. In 1 898 we could not help being brought face to face with the problem of war with Spain. All we could... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 2006 - 341 pages
...the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities. If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the mTorld. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we... | |
| Edwin SiliƩ - 2007 - 198 pages
...challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet." William F. Halsey "If we are to be a really great people, we must strive...ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill." Theodore Roosevelt "The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you... | |
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