Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We are bound in honor to try to remedy injustice; but if we are wise we will seek to remedy it in practical ways."

"You need first of all to distribute the water in space through the irrigating ditches, and then to preserve it in time by storage in reservoirs."

"This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob."

"The crime of cunning, the crime of greed, the crime of violence, are all equally crimes, and against them all alike the law must set its face."