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)