Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is eminently fitting that these services should now be commemorated in suitable manner.

So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.

But he felt only love, a love as deep as the tenderness of his great and sad heart, for all his country men alike in the North and in the So...

To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some harm.