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By Theodore Roosevelt
There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder.
- Source
- Citizenship in a Republic (address at the Sorbonne, Paris), April 23, 1910 · African and European Addresses, 1910, p. 39
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- Internet Archive (Smithsonian Libraries scan of African and European Addresses, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910)
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From "Citizenship in a Republic," the address Roosevelt gave at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910, as printed in African and European Addresses (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910).