Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We shall succeed or fail in making this Republic what it should be made—I will go a little further than that—what it shall and must be made, accordingly as we do or do not seriously and resolutely set..."

"It is not merely a great thing, but an indispensable thing that the nation's citizens should be ready and willing to die for it in time of need;"

"But in addition to dying for the nation you must be willing and anxious to live for the nation, or the nation will be badly off."

"It is a pleasure to be here this afternoon to accept in the name of the nation the monument put up by your society to the memory of those who fell in the war with Spain;"