Excerpt from From the Ranch to the White House: Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Author, Legislator, Field Sportsman, Soldier, Reformer and Executive But, none the less, the fact remains that Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most ad mirable types of American manhood that ever lived. He is a patriot to the bone, his integrity is unassailable, his ability of the highest order. He has been an unrelenting foe of dishonesty and corruption from the first the one question respecting every meas ure brought before him is, Is it right And that which he believes is right, that will he do, though the heavens fall. He was heavily handicapped at the begin ning. He was born into a blue blood family and without the necessity of toiling for a living. But no one cares less for a name, and no laborer on the streets works harder than he. He was of weak, puny frame, yet made himself one of the sturdiest and most powerful of men; he is clean minded, a brave, aggressive Christian, a mighty hunter, a brilliant author, and a force ful speaker, - one who always has something to say, and says it with irrestrainable earnest ness, while every one who hears his words admits that they are well worth hearing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.