"I do not want to be a mere figurehead. I want to be a leader."

"I am a firm believer in the doctrine of 'speak softly and carry a big stick.'"

"I have always been fond of the West and its people, and I have always felt that the true American spirit was to be found there."

"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 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."