Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We need men with these ideals in public life, and we need them just as much in business and in such a profession as the law.

Remarks at the Alumni Dinner of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

06/27/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I shall say but one word of thanks to you tonight.

If he is a straight man we should be for him, and if he is a crooked man we should be against him.

This republic is not, and never shall, be the government of a plutocracy.

This government is not, and never shall be, the government of a mob.