Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Words are good if they are backed up by deeds, and only so."

"We showed in the Revolution that we had a right to be free; we showed when we constructed the more perfect union of the old Confederacy that we knew how to use that right as it needed to be used."

"We said Cuba should become a free republic, and we have kept our word."

"it is deemed to be wise and humane, in accordance with the beneficent purposes of the government of the United States toward the Filipino people, and conducive to peace, order and loyalty among them, ..."