Teddy Roosevelt: “It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness.”

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.

I congratulate you thereon.

I have just been shot.

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…