Teddy Roosevelt: “There is no use whatever in having lofty ambitions or great schemes for helping mankind if you are not able in the first…”

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

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

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…

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.