Henry Cabot Lodge: “He would never compromise a principle, but he was eminently tolerant of honest differences of opinion.”

Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.

When the future historian traces Theodore Roosevelt's extraordinary career he will find these embodied ideals planted like milestones along the road over which he marched.

But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.

His ideal of public service was to be found in his life, and as his life drew to its close he had to meet his ideal of sacrifice face to face.