While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.


The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life (ed. 1901)

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less...

While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less...

While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less...

While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less...