Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I do not expect perfection, but I do expect genuine and sincere effort toward being decent and cleanly in thought, in word, and in deed."

"Just this morning when attending service on the great battleship Kearsarge I listened to a sermon addressed to the officers and enlisted men of the navy."

"I desire to see in this country the decent men strong and the strong men decent."

"There is always a tendency among very young men and among boys who are not quite young men as yet to think that to be wicked is rather smart; to think it shows that they are men."