Teddy Roosevelt: “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…”

I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.

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…

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.

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