Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"If government cannot go on it is not government."

"The Monroe Doctrine is simply a statement of our very firm belief that on this continent the nations now existing here must be left to work out their own destinies among themselves and that the contin..."

"Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the only principles according to which it is possible to administer this Republic."

"We have got to do it somehow, and I ask that all men stand shoulder to shoulder as Americans to see that they do it well."