Read the passage from vice president theodore roosevelts "national duties address. 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 for evermore. the roman has passed away exactly as all the nations of antiquity which did not expand when he expanded have passed away; but their very memory has vanished, while he himself is still a living force throughout the wide world in our entire civilization of to-day, and will so continue through countless generations, through untold ages. what is a theme of the passage?
A. Nations are remembered by history regardless of their great deeds.
B. Nations are remembered by history regardless of their great deeds.
C. Nations are remembered by history because of their great deeds.
D. Nations are forgotten by history regardless of their mistakes.