Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"If government cannot go on it is not government."

"One secret, perhaps I might say the chief secret, of Mr. Blaine's extraordinary hold upon the affections of his countrymen was his entirely genuine and unaffected Americanism."

"He has got in the first place to be honest and decent."

"We won out because our fathers had iron in their blood, because they dared greatly and did greatly, because when they were convinced where their duty lay they resolutely did it, no matter what the cos..."