I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.
Theodore RooseveltThe truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
Theodore RooseveltFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore RooseveltAmericanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
Theodore Roosevelt