Teddy Roosevelt: “I hope to see both graduate and undergraduate opinion come to scorn such a man as one guilty of base and dishonorable…”

Don’t you pity me. I am all right.

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…

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

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.