Teddy Roosevelt: “We have to play it; all we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill.”

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…

the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.

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