Yet the campaign he made was not in vain, for in addition to the question of preparation he spoke earnestly of other things, other burning questions, and he always spoke to an enormous body of listeners everywhere.
Lodge acknowledges Roosevelt's impactful campaign on military preparedness and other pressing issues.
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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.
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.
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.