Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We should not be here if it were not for them, but their exercise has caused great questions to rise in our national life."

"Our honor at home, our honor in domestic and internal affairs, is at all times in our own keeping, and depends simply upon the possession of an awakened public conscience."

"That is how the victory comes."

"Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the only principles according to which it is possible to administer this Republic."