Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is a good custom for our country to have certain solemn holidays in commemoration of our greatest men and of the greatest crises in our h...

All cruelty is forbidden, and all harshness beyond what is called for by need.

All honor to them; and shame, thrice shame, to us if we fail to uphold their hands!

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known...