Teddy Roosevelt: “Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them.”

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

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 he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.

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

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…