Teddy Roosevelt: “Each kind of organization is to be favored so long as it acts in a spirit of justice and of regard for the rights of…”

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.

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.

I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole.

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.