“I think the President is clearly insane in several ways, and insanest upon war and its supreme glories. I think he longs for a big war wherein he can spectacularly perform as chief general and chief admiral… Mr. Roosevelt is the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the twentieth century; always showing off; always hunting for a chance to show off; in his frenzied imagination the great republic is a vast Barnum circus with him for a clown and the whole world for an audience.”
— Mark Twain on Theodore Roosevelt
My Grandfather, Born 1886, hated TR, the Bride at every Wedding and the Corpse at every funeral, because of his ego and anti-republican ways.