Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"No person shall be removed from a competitive position except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service."

"The discipline, the ready subordination of each man, whether officer or enlisted man, to duty, the care taken of the men and in return the eager, intelligent, self-respecting zeal of each man in doing..."

"I have no respect either for the nation or for the individual that brawls, that invites trouble."

"Now think what it means in a nation for the President of that nation, forty years after one of the greatest wars of all time, to be able to come and speak as I spoke in the capital of the Southern Con..."