Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"You know well the claim that comradeship in war makes between man and man."

"There was in the regiment but one kind of rivalry among those men, and but one would have been tolerated."

"I congratulate you upon all that has been done, and I am certain that the future will far more than make good the past."

"I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been astonishing."