Henry Cabot Lodge: “The first requisite of leadership is ability to lead, and that ability Theodore Roosevelt possessed in full measure.”

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.

Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.

He preached unceasingly the familiar morals which lie at the bottom of both family and public life.

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…