 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
 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 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. Last year we could not help being brought face to face with the problem of war with Spain. All we could... | |
 | Morrison Isaac Swift - 1899 - 516 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
...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. Last year we could not help being brought face to face with the problem of war with Spain. All we could... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 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. Last year 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
...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. Last year we could not help being brought face to face with the problem of war with Spain. All we could... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...fathers, the men who upheld the wisdom of Lincoln, and bore sword or rifle in the army of Grant!" "If we are to be a really great people, we must strive...in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. ' ' ' ' The timid man, the lazy man, the man who distrusts his country, the over-civilized man, who... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 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 world. We can not 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...in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. . . . We cannot leave the islands we have conquered to their fates. Some stronger, manlier power would... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 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 world. We can not 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...ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. NATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL PEACE [New York is the greatest port of entry for the United States. The Chamber... | |
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