Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American.

Address at the Hall of the Native Sons of the Golden West in San Francisco, California

05/12/1903

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The coward is to be condemned rather than the brave man to be praised.

I desire to see in this country the decent men strong and the strong men decent.

There is always a tendency among very young men and among boys who are not quite young men as yet to think that to be wicked is rather smart...

Just this morning when attending service on the great battleship Kearsarge I listened to a sermon addressed to the officers and enlisted men...