Henry Cabot Lodge: “He had but one standard one test, and that was whether a man, rich or poor, was an honest man, a good citizen, and a…”

He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.

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.

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.