“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

“In America today all sure people are summoned to service and sacrifice.”

In the Metropolitan
October 1918

“We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.”

Speech in New York City
May 30, 1899

“I hold no other class of people in our community in quite the regard that I hold the American teacher who is moulding the American nation of tomorrow.”

Speech before the Iowa State Teachers Association
November 4, 1910

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”

Speech in New York
November 11, 1902