"The American people are right in demanding that the power of the federal government be used to protect the weak against the strong."

"The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages."

"I am a strong believer in the doctrine of 'the big stick in foreign policy.'"

"Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."

"I am a man of the West, and I have lived among the cowboys and the hunters and the miners and the ranchmen, and I know them, and I know their ways."