Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may b..."

"No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life."

"A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics."

"I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present."