Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Parker's personal attacks grew so outrageous that I felt it necessary to smash them.

I am deeply sensible of the honor done me by the American people in thus expressing their confidence in what I have done and have tried to d...

I appreciate in the full the solemn responsibility this confidence imposes upon me, and I shall do all that in my power lies not to forfeit ...

The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance and not the form.