Let us stand valiantly for what is decent and right; let us strike hard and take with unshaken front whatever comes, whether it be good or ill.  Then the fates must decide what the outcome will be.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)

Letter

In James MacGregor Burns, Presidential Government, ch. 2 (1965)