Henry Cabot Lodge: “It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.”

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.

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

No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.