Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Now, the grand problem that we should set before us is to keep prosperity, but above all never, under any circumstances, to lend ourselves to the leadership of any who appeal to the baser passions of ..."

"Let's devote our best thought and best energies to finding some method of getting rid of any and all evils in the body politic."

"In this life as a rule the job that is easy to do is not very well worth while doing."

"Evils have come through our very prosperity, but in warring against the evil let us be exceeding careful not to war against the prosperity."