Henry Cabot Lodge: “Roosevelt set himself to expel politics and favoritism in appointments and promotions and to crush corruption…”

Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.

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

So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

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