I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.