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; and the presence of no other quality could atone for t..."

"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;"

"We shall succeed or fail in making this Republic what it should be made—I will go a little further than that—what it shall and must be made, accordingly as we do or do not seriously and resolutely set..."

"What we need most in this Republic is not special genius, not unusual brilliancy, but the honest and upright adherence on the part of the mass of the citizens and of their representatives to the funda..."