Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1637 |
| AUTHOR: | Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) |
| QUOTATION: | Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Pinchot commented, “There are few sayings of his that hold for me so much of him as this.” |
| SUBJECTS: | Right |