Teddy Roosevelt: “What they say is of no consequence to us compared to what we say to them.”

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.

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

I stand for the square deal.

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…