Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We meet to-day upon one of the great battle-fields of the Civil War."

"In addition to decency he had to have the qualities that would make the decency effective."

"There has never been another war in which the issues at stake were so large."

"No other battle of the Civil War lasting but one day shows as great a percentage of loss as that which occurred here upon the day on which Antietam was fought."