Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is a great pleasure to come here and stop for a few minutes at the place where my predecessor, President McKinley, was so fond of staying...

I ask that the nation dare to be great, and that in daring to be great it show how to do justice to the weak no less than to exact justice f...

That sort of kindness is a curse for those for whom it is nominally exercised.

I demand that the nation do its duty, accept responsibility that must go with greatness.