Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so that it will be dangerous to the community even more than to the evil attacked."

"We are all loyal Americans now—North, South, East and West—all alike jealous of the nation's honor and welfare."

"Now, the grand problem that we should set before us is to keep prosperity, but above all never, under any circumstances, to lend ourselves to the leadership of any who appeal to the baser passions of ..."

"In this life as a rule the job that is easy to do is not very well worth while doing."