Teddy Roosevelt: “I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.”

I have just been shot.

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

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.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.