Teddy Roosevelt: “In other words, I believe you have the coolness, the courage, the endurance, the fighting edge.”

A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.

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.

I congratulate you thereon.

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