Teddy Roosevelt: “You had to have the ideals, but if you had not been able to march and shoot you could not have put them into practice.”

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

the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.

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.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own.