Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Remarks at the Pan-American Missionary Service at the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul at Mount St. Alban

10/24/1903

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Moreover, it is a peculiar pleasure to speak today under the auspices of the Army and Navy Union.

The first duty of a leader, civil or military, is to lead; and he must lead well.

Nothing is cheaper than to say that the people are all right but that the politicians are all wrong.

We can not too highly honor the memory of the leaders in the Civil War.