“We must see that this nation stands for strength and honesty both at home and abroad.”

Speech in Colorado Springs
1901

“The disloyal man, whether his disloyalty is open or disguised, is our worst foe.”

The Greatest Adventure
1918

“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and being wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

Fear God and Take Your Own Part
1916

“Patriotism is as much a duty in time of war as in time of peace, and it is most of all a duty in any and every great crisis.”

Fear God and Take Your Own Part
1916

“Nothing worth gaining is ever gained without effort.”

Speech in Buffalo, NY
January 26, 1893

“All people alive to the nation’s need should join together to work for the moral, spiritual, and physical welfare of the children in all parts of our land.”

Speech at Jamestown Exposition
June 10, 1907

“Treaties must never be recklessly made.”

America and the World War, 1915

“All individuals, rich or poor, private or corporate, must be subject to the law of the land.”

Outlook Magazine
September 27, 1902

“The men who do the great work for the nation are the men who, for a money payment infinitely less than what they would earn in civil life, face terrible risk and endure indescribable hardship and fatigue and misery at the front.”

Metropolitan Magazine
November 1918

“The only permanently efficient defensive arm is the one which can act offensively.”

America and The World War
March 1886

“No country will accomplish very much for the world at large unless it elevates itself.”

The Bachelor of Arts
March 1886

“No treaties, whether between civilized nations or not, can ever be regarded as binding in perpetuity; with changing conditions, circumstances may arise which render it not only expedient, but imperative and honorable to abrogate them.”

The Winning of the West
1889