Henry Cabot Lodge: “His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.”

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.

No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.

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.

The blood of some ancestral Scotch covenanter or of some Dutch reformed preacher facing the tyranny of Philip of Spain was in his veins, and with his large opportunities and his vast audiences he was always ready to appeal for justice and…