Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"The great prizes come more or less by accident."

"I have come, as I said, not to make a set speech, but to thank you for your greeting and to assure you that not one meeting which I have attended since I have been President has given me greater pleas..."

"Lincoln, himself a man of Southern birth, did not hesitate to appeal to the sword when he became satisfied that in no other way could the Union be saved, for high though he put peace he put righteousn..."

"Besides acting squarely, talk politely."