Teddy Roosevelt: “But besides refraining from evil, he must do good.”

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

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

Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show…

One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.