Teddy Roosevelt

Now I am emboldened by your generous kindness and confidence to say that it has been indeed a pleasure to deal with Louisiana's representatives in the Senate and the lower House of Congress.

I thank you not only for the words which accompany it, but for the spirit which lies behind the words.

All I had to do was to be able to show them that any measure was for the country's good and I knew they would stand for it.

Now we know but one rivalry—the rivalry to see which of us can do the most for the flag of a united country.

As I said at Richmond, second only to the man who wore the blue, I hold the man who wore the gray.

I don't say anything unless I mean it.

The poor man who is true to you is the ultimately righteous, and the man who will steal for you will steal from you.

I earnestly hope that the bench and the bar of the United States will in all proper ways seek to see to it that the loose customs...shall not be perverted so as to harm the whole public by giving the criminal an advantage to which he is…

The country will be all right if the average man is decent and clean in his home life.

We urgently need in this country methods for expediting punishment, methods for doing away with delay, methods which will secure to the public an even chance with the criminal—I do not ask any more.

We can afford to be divided on questions of mere partisanship.

The average American is a pretty good fellow.

I am just a trifle more intent on punishing the Republican offender than the Democrat, because he is my own scoundrel.

Treat each man according to his worth as a man.

I have a great respect for a good man, and the only one I have greater respect for is a good woman.

But if he is rich and crooked hold it against him; if not rich but is crooked, then hold it against him.

We have a right to expect a peculiar quantity and quality of the service to the public

By their fruits shall ye know them

Hold it not against him that he is either rich or poor.

It is not the President or the Senators or the Congressmen, or even the Governors, who make up our nation, who make the greatness of our nation.

In the interest of humanity, of justice, and of self-protection, every white man in America, no matter where he lives, should try to help the negro to help himself.

I believe in the future of America, because I believe that the average American man, and the average American woman, is sound at heart.

Alabama has made a wonderful record.

Every dollar put into the education of either white man or black man, in head, in hand, and in heart, yields rich dividends to the entire community.

The one all-essential thing in America, the thing that underlies everything else, is to have the average American a good man or a good woman; and if there is any one thing that I respect more than a good man, it is a good woman.