 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
 | Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 406 pages
...demands from himself, and from his sons, shall be demanded of the American nation as a whole. . . . It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation...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 a great part in the... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 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... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 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... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 244 pages
...the housewife, the helpmeet of the homemaker, the wise and fearless mother of many healthy children. 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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 412 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 tho checkered by failure, than to take... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Edward Lawrence Stevens - 1913 - 384 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... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1913 - 386 pages
...who follow it for serious work in the world. As it is with the individual, so it is with the natiqn. It is a base untruth to say that happy is 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... | |
 | Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 412 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... | |
 | Herbert Adams Gibbons - 1916 - 394 pages
...fittest. They were fresh, enthusiastic, uncontaminated, energetic. They had ideals : they had a goal. As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation. Ideals are lost when the goal is reached. Decay sets in when the struggle for existence ceases. Pressed... | |
 | 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....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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