"I utterly enjoy myself. I like to be in the thick of the fight."

"I have been in Sagamore Hill for two days, and have had a perfectly lovely time. I killed a rattlesnake and a copperhead, and caught a woodchuck alive and put him in a barrel. I also killed a weasel a…"

"I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor."

"I don't think there is any use of my going into the matter of the lynching. I will not say anything about it one way or the other."

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