
“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 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
“It is not the critic who counts… the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly… who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Speech in Paris
April 23, 1910

“No man is above the law and no man is below it.”
Third Annual Message
December 7, 1903
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