“Sometimes in life, both at school and afterwards, fortune will go against anyone, but if he just keeps pegging away and don’t lose his courage things always take a turn for the better in the end.“

Letter to his son Kermit
December 2, 1904

“Centuries must pass before the wound not only scars over but becomes completely forgotten, and the memory becomes a bond of union and not a cause of division. It is our business to shorten the time as much as possible.”

Letter to Sir George Otto Trevelyan
January 1, 1908

“Americanism means the virtues of honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood – the virtues that made America.”

Theodore Roosevelt
Letter to the Congress of Constructive Patriotism
January 26, 1917

“If next November my countrymen confirm at the polls the action of the convention you represent, I shall, under Providence, continue to work with an eye single to the welfare of all our people.”

Remarks at the Republican National Convention
July 27, 1904

“The country has stood a great deal in the past and can stand a great deal more in the future.”

Letter to his sister, Bamie
June 8, 1884

“It is a good thing, on the Fourth of July for us to come together, and we have the right to express our pride in what our forefathers did, and our joy in the abundant greatness of this people.”

Speech in Huntington, New York
July 4th, 1903

“That man is the best American who has in him the American spirit, the American soul.”

Speech in New York City
March 17, 1905

“As the years roll by, and as all of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel . . . a peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men . . . the man whose blood was shed for the union of his people and for the freedom of a race, Abraham Lincoln.”

Speech in Hodgenville, Kentucky
February 12, 1909

“Strength should go hand in hand with courtesy, with scrupulous regard in word and deed, not only for the rights, but for the feelings, of other countries.”

Speech in Waukesha, Wisconsin
April 3, 1903

“A really great people, proud and high-spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.”

Address as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Naval War College, June 1897

“They have died with high honor, and not in vain; for it is they, and those like them, who have saved the soul of the world.”

Letter to James Bryce following the combat death of Quentin Roosevelt in WWI
August 7, 1918