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By Theodore Roosevelt
Thrice happy is 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 rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Source
- The Strenuous Life (speech to the Hamilton Club, Chicago), April 10, 1899 · The Strenuous Life, 1903 edition, p. 4
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- Internet Archive (University of North Carolina scan of The Strenuous Life, London: Grant Richards, 1903)
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From Roosevelt's speech to the Hamilton Club in Chicago, April 10, 1899, as printed in the 1903 Grant Richards edition of The Strenuous Life.