They preferred to see the savages at peace with the Americans, provided that in this way they could keep their lands; but, whether through peace or war, they wished the lands to remain Indian, and the Americans to be barred from them.
Roosevelt outlines the British preference for peace with Native Americans as long as it served their interests in land retention.
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The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.
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.
Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
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