Teddy Roosevelt: “We have proved in effective fashion that we wish the Chinese Empire well and desire its integrity and independence.”

One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.

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 am absorbed in the success of that movement.

I am not sick at all. I am all right.