Teddy Roosevelt: “Nine-tenths of all the raw materials of every kind and description consumed in American manufactories are of American…”

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

I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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