Teddy Roosevelt: “There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”

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

Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.

Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show…