Henry Cabot Lodge: “He never by any chance bored the American people.”

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.

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

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

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