Henry Cabot Lodge: “Theodore Roosevelt always believed that character was of greater worth and moment than anything else.”

He had that entire simplicity of manners and modes of life which is the crowning result of the highest culture and the finest nature.

Let us imitate this prudence; and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may, at least, be able to conjecture where we now are.

To have refused supreme rule, and then to have effected in the spirit and under the forms of free government all and more than the most brilliant of military chiefs could have achieved by absolute power, is a glory which belongs to…

One was the conviction that the struggle must be fought out to the bitter end, and must bring either subjugation or complete independence.