Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The man who is content to go through life owing his alma mater for an education for which he has made no adequate return is not true to the ...

Do not make threats at all, but if it becomes necessary to say what, in a certain contingency we are going to do, say it and then do it.

I do not wish us ever as a nation to take a position from which we have to retreat.

Years count differently at different places and at different times.