 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 AMERICANISM OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Page 237by HERMANN HAGEDORN - 1923Full view - About this book
 | 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
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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
...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...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... | |
| |
