Henry Cabot Lodge: “You must accept the popular wish, whatever it is, follow your star, and let the future care for itself.”

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

His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.

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.

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.