Teddy Roosevelt: “If hard times come to the nation, whether as the result of natural causes or because they are invited by our own folly…”

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…

We must drive the special interests out of politics.

I am not sick at all. I am all right.