"What We Can Expect of the American Boy," St. Nicholas Magazine (1900-05) - Roosevelt, Theodore | WIST Quotations
In short, in life, as in a foot-ball game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard! Reprinted as "The American Boy" in Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (1900). Roosevelt used this general phrasing on multiple occasions, so various forms…
