Henry Cabot Lodge: “There never has been in political history, when all conditions are considered, such an exhibition of extraordinary…”

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.

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

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.