Teddy Roosevelt: “We did not win through any special ingenuity.”

Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show…

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

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

It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.