At home he recommended to Congress legislation which was directed toward a larger control of the railroads and to removing the privileges and curbing the power of great business combinations obtained through rebates and preferential freight rates.
Lodge discusses Roosevelt's legislative efforts aimed at regulating railroads and curbing corporate power.
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Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.
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.
His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.
No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.