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

"We need to get rid of the idea that we can be a great nation without being a strong nation."

"I have never been a man who has been afraid to speak his mind, and I have never been a man who has been afraid to do what he thought was right."

"I have always been a believer in the doctrine that the nation which expects to be great must be able to fight."

"I am not in the least concerned with the abstract rights of the matter, but with the concrete facts."

"I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."