“Each of us has not only his duty to himself, his family and his neighbors, but his duty to the State and to the nation.”

Speech in Colorado Springs, CO
August 2, 1901

“Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing and common sense.”

Speech at the New York State Fair, September 7, 1907

“Neither our national nor our local civic life can be what it should unless it is marked by the fellow-feeling, the mutual kindness, the mutual respect, the sense of common duties, and common interests.”

Century
January, 1900

“It is a sign of marked political weakness in any commonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory.”

Speech in Paris, April 23, 1910

“A wise and upright judge can render, and does render, in the long run, rather better service than can be rendered even by the right type of executive or legislative officer.”

Outlook
March 4, 1911

“There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children’s children forever, with their majestic beauty unmarred.”

Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, 1905

“Patriotism means services to the nation; and only those who render such service are fit to enjoy the privilege of citizenship.”

Speech in Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903

“Patriotism means services to the nation; and only those who render such service are fit to enjoy the privilege of citizenship.”

Speech in Lincoln, Nebraska, June 14, 1917

“I believe in the party to which we belong because I believe in the principles for which the Republican Party stood in the days of Abraham Lincoln; and furthermore, and especially because I believe in treating those principles not as dead but as living.”

At the New York Republican State Convention,
September 27, 1910

“In achieving good government the fundamental factor must be the character of the average citizen.”

Speech in Antietam, MD, September 17, 1903

“There is not a man of us here who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”

Speech in Pasadena, CA
May 8, 1903

“There can be no greater mistake from the democratic point of view, nothing more ruinous can be imagined from the point of view of a true democracy, than to believe that democracy means absence of leadership.”

Speech in New York City
November 16, 1916