"Roosevelt loads his gun too heavy. ...The recoil hurts him more than the shot does his enemy. He is bound to make a big noise but the kick of the gun is so much power taken from the force of the bullet. People react vigorously against him as they always do to his surplus verbal energy."
John Burroughs
quoted in
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Douglas Brinkley
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