Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so that it will be dangerous to the community even more than to the evil attacked."

"Face the problem; realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit that will keep it ever in mind that if we are to succeed at all, it must be by each doing to the best of his capacity his own bu..."

"There was no money reward for what you did."

"To you alone it was given to face with victorious valor the one crisis in which not merely the nation's welfare but the nation's life was at stake."