Teddy Roosevelt: “In order to take such a position of being a great Nation, the one thing that we must not do is to bluff.”

I congratulate you thereon.

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own.

I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.