Theodore Roosevelt said...

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

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by...

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

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.