Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"May we prove ourselves true to them, not merely by paying homage to their memory, but by so shaping the policy of this great Republic as to make it evident that we are not unworthy of our sires."

"Righteousness finds weakness but a poor yoke-fellow."

"And in the names of the mighty men of the past I ask each man here to do his part in seeing that this nation remains true in deed as well as in word to the ideals of the past;"

"We are Americans, and that means that we treat Americanism primarily as a matter of spirit and purpose."