 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
 | 1919 - 824 pages
...danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. ... As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation ... If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the... | |
 | 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....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 - 1920 - 424 pages
...above all it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. 30 As it is with the individual so it is with the nation....base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has BO history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty... | |
 | 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....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... | |
 | 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....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... | |
 | HERMANN HAGEDORN - 1923 - 340 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....no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a II. THE STRENUOUS LIFE I I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1924 - 276 pages
...nature, whose eternal vigilance is need to keep the temple purer and the light trimmed and burning. As it is with the individual, so it is with the Nation. The grandeur of the Republic must always rest upon the nobility of the citizen. Does the sacred fire... | |
 | Samuel Thurber - 1924 - 172 pages
...and wink and yawn, and give their paws in humorous embarrassment? — HENRY C. MERWIN, Dogs and Men 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... | |
 | Martin Burgess Green - 1991 - 268 pages
...dollars, but Americans would have shown themselves weaklings, unfit to stand among the great nations. "It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history," he declared, reminding us of Dumas's ideas about the historical novel.3 The adventures of the past... | |
 | Jonathan Freedman - 1998 - 284 pages
...consequences to the national good, between what is expected of the manly male and the womanly female, for "as it is with the individual, so it is with the nation" (269). "In the last analysis a healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead... | |
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