Theodore Roosevelt — "I believe that the white man is the only man who can make a success of this coun…"

"I have a perfect horror of the man who is always trying to get something for nothing."

"I have been President of the United States. I have been a colonel of a regiment. I have been a police commissioner of New York. I have been a cattle ranchman. I have been a hunter of big game. I have …"

"I am a strong believer in the doctrine of 'equal opportunity for all, special privileges for none.'"

"I have always been a man who has believed in the importance of outdoor life, and I have always been a man who has believed in the importance of physical fitness."

"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."