Teddy Roosevelt: “It is far better, for instance, to do well a bit of work which is well worth doing, than to have a large fortune.”

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.

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own.

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.