Teddy Roosevelt: “Remember that the dearest kind of public servant is a servant who is paid so cheaply that he must render cheap service.”

I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.

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.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by an Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations…

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.