Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is not merely a great thing, but an indispensable thing that the nation's citizens should be ready and willing to die for it in time of need;

Remarks on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at Arlington, Under the Auspices...

05/20/1902

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

In this life as a rule the job that is easy to do is not very well worth while doing.

Do your work and do it up to the handle and then play when you have got time to play, and if you are worth anything enjoy that, too.

If any man tells you that he can advance a specific by which all the evils of the body politic will be made to disappear, distrust him, for ...

Our officers and men on the march and in battle showed themselves not unworthy of you, the men of the great war.