Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"It is a poor thing for a nation if it uses the memory of the past to excuse it for inaction or failure in the present."

"The easiest way to raise any of us is to raise all of us, and if you de press any of us, as sure as fate all of us will more or less feel the effects of that depression."

"I need not tell you that what really counts in any State is the character of the men and women who make up that State."

"We have a right to say that this is a pretty big country, because it is."