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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 11
AUTHOR: Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
QUOTATION: We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
ATTRIBUTION: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City, October 5, 1898.—“The Duties of a Great Nation,” Campaigns and Controversies (vol. 14 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 45, p. 291 (1926).

See also Nos. 575 and 1118.
SUBJECTS: Action
 


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