In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt