Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Best of all it is to have what counts for more than body and more than mind, character—character, into which a good many different elements enter, but these especially."

"This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob."

"And Congress, the National Legislature, has not of recent years put upon the statute books any law as wise, as beneficent as the National irrigation act of a year ago."

"The most unsafe adviser to follow is the man who would advise us to do wrong in order that we may benefit by it."