Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is a discredit to be dishonest, just as it is a discredit to be a coward.

Remarks at the Banquet of the New York Press Club in New York City

02/12/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

But education is not enough.

The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room.

The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.