Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"The Monroe Doctrine is simply a statement of our very firm belief that on this continent the nations now existing here must be left to work out their own destinies among themselves and that the contin..."

"We are all of us apt to get to talking and thinking of the nation and the state as abstractions."

"We have many external problems to solve, but our internal problems are, of course, more serious."

"Our honor at home, our honor in domestic and internal affairs, is at all times in our own keeping, and depends simply upon the possession of an awakened public conscience."