Henry Cabot Lodge: “He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.”

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.

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…

He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.