• “Be honest, and remember that honesty counts for nothing unless back of it lie courage and efficiency.”

    Speech in Groton, Massachusetts
    May 24, 1904

    September 27, 2016

  • “As a people we must be united. If we are not united we shall slip into the gulf of measureless disaster. We must be strong in purpose for our own defense and bent on securing justice within our borders.”

    Before Knights of Columbus, New York City
    October 12, 1915

    September 20, 2016

  • “Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character.”

    Outlook Magazine, March 31, 1900

    September 13, 2016

  • “Ease and rest and pleasure are good things, but only if they come as the reward of work well done.”

    At Pilgrim Memorial Monument, Mass., August 20, 1907

    September 6, 2016

  • “We need absolute honesty in public life; and we shall not get it until we remember that truth-telling must go hand in hand with it.”

    Outlook, May 12, 1900

    August 30, 2016

  • “Whether it is the forest, the water, the scenery. Whatever it is, handle it so that your children’s children will get the benefit of it.”

    At Grand Canyon, Arizona, May 6, 1903

    August 23, 2016

  •  “A young man who has broken a running or jumping record, who has stroked a winning club crew or played on his college nine or eleven, has a distinct claim on our respect.”

    North American Review, August 1890

    August 16, 2016

  • “The life of the State rests and must ever rest upon the life of the family and the neighborhood.”

    The Outlook, April 10, 1909

    August 9, 2016

  • “We must all realize that conduct is of infinitely greater importance than dogma.”

     Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 1914

    August 2, 2016

  • “If as a nation we are split into warring camps, if we teach our citizens not to look upon one another as brothers but as enemies divided by the hatred of creed for creed or of those of one race against those of another race, surely we shall fail and our great democratic experiment on this continent will go down in crushing overthrow.”

    Speech in New York City
    October 12, 1915

    July 26, 2016

  • “A party fit to govern must have convictions.”

    Letter accepting the Republican nomination for President
    September 12, 1904

    July 19, 2016

  • “Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.”

    Third Annual Address to Congress
    December 7, 1903

    July 12, 2016