Teddy Roosevelt: “I am not surprised that you should show those traits, for I should be heartily ashamed of you if you did not.”

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

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…

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.

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.