Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious 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.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy era and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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I can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.