• “I wonder whether there ever can come in life a thrill of greater exaltation and rapture than that which comes to one between the ages of say six and fourteen, when the library door is thrown open and you walk in to see all the gifts, like a materialized fairy land, arrayed on your special table?”

    – The Supreme Christmas Joy
    White House
    Dec. 26, 1903

    December 20, 2016

  • “Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”

    Speech in San Francisco, California
    May 13, 1903

    December 13, 2016

  • “One of our cardinal doctrines is freedom of speech, which means freedom of speech about foreigners as well as about ourselves.”

    An Autobiography,
    1913

    December 6, 2016

  • “My course was to insist on absolute fitness, including honesty, as a prerequisite to every appointment.”

    An Autobiography
    1913

    November 29, 2016

  • “No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to the Giver of Good.”

    Inaugural Address,
    1905

    November 22, 2016

  • “He among us who wishes to win honor in our life, and to play his part honestly and manfully, must be indeed an American in spirit and purpose, in heart and thought and deed.”

    New York
    1906

    November 15, 2016

  • “I think that on the whole the future holds more for us than even the great past has held. But, assuredly, the dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.”

    History as Literature
    1913

    November 8, 2016

  • “Civic greatness is at an end when civic righteousness is no longer its foundation.”

    The Strenuous Life
    1900

    November 1, 2016

  • “Reformers, if they are to do well, must look both backward and forward; must be bold and yet must exercise prudence and caution in all they do.”

    Introduction to The Wisconsin Idea
    1912

    October 25, 2016

  • “The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”

    Remarks at Sagamore Hill
    June 1901

    October 18, 2016

  • “Without honesty, the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast.”

    Outlook Magazine, May 12, 1900

    October 11, 2016

  • “Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.”

    The Outlook, March 31, 1900

    October 4, 2016