Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Envy is merely the meanest form of admiration, and a man who envies another admits thereby his own inferiority.

The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen.

it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans.

I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in business, in domestic life...