Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Teddy on Daring Mighty Things

As far as the differences between New Europe and Old Europe are concerned, perhaps Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) said it best a century ago:
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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