Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

My regiment was raised under the walls of that historic building of which it was said that Thermopylæ had its messenger of death, but the Al...

It is a poor thing for a nation if it uses the memory of the past to excuse it for inaction or failure in the present.

If your citizens act as well in peace as those of them I knew in war, it will be a mighty good State.

All day long I have been traveling through your beautiful Territory, a Territory that very soon, I not only hope but earnestly believe, will...