Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him."

"It does not make any difference what work the man is doing if he does it well."

"I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil."

"I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family, a good neighbor, a good man to deal with in business, a goo..."