One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their powe… - Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Teddy Roosevelt

All — Easterners and Westerners, Northerners and Southerners, officers and men, cowboys and college graduates, wherever they came from, and whatever their social position — possessed in common the traits of hardihood and a thirst for adventure. They were to a man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word.

No candid observer will deny that whatever of good there may be in our American civilization is the product of Christianity.