Henry Cabot Lodge: “The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and…”

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.

So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

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

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…