Henry Cabot Lodge: “He fought to free the colonies from England, and make them independent, not to play the part of a Cæsar or a Cromwell in…”

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.

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

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

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