Henry Cabot Lodge: “Lincoln was undoubtedly the first great American of his type, but that is not the only type of American.”

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.

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

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