Teddy Roosevelt: “A man, to amount to anything, must be practical.”

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.

Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.