Teddy Roosevelt: “That life is wasted, and worse than wasted, which is spent in piling, heap upon heap, those things which minister merely…”

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.

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