Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The first duty of a leader, civil or military, is to lead; and he must lead well.

No other men deserve so well of this country as those to whom we owe it that we now have a country.

Nothing is cheaper than to say that the people are all right but that the politicians are all wrong.

He must be able to handle himself and to handle the formidable and delicate mechanism intrusted to his care.