Teddy Roosevelt: “We despise the boy who treats the fact that his father counted for something as being an excuse for his counting for…”

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

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

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.