Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

All the patients that I saw, with one or two exceptions, were laborers or other employees on the canal works and railways.

Message to Congress After Returning from the Canal Zone in Panama

12/16/1906

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I congratulate you thereon.

I am not sick at all. I am all right.

I have just been shot.

It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.