Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The government can do something—it can do a good deal—but it never can begin to do as much for the individual as the individual can do for t...

And the same qualities must be shown in public life if we are to make this country what we will make it—an example to all the nations of man...

If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity.

They will task our intelligence but they will task still more what ranks ahead of intelligence—character.