The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.