Teddy Roosevelt: “The Army as it is now is as small as it can possibly be and serve its purpose as an effective nucleus for the…”

Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.

I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.