Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

All that he can promise is that so far as in him lies he will do his part toward making them right.

My regiment was raised under the walls of that historic building of which it was said that Thermopylæ had its messenger of death, but the Al...

It is a poor thing for a nation if it uses the memory of the past to excuse it for inaction or failure in the present.

It will be a mighty poor thing, if you don't.