Theodore Roosevelt said...

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as ex...

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if h...