Teddy Roosevelt: “He neither has produced nor can produce any proof of their truth; yet he has not withdrawn them; and as his position…”

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…