Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

No business community can permanently succeed if the average member of it does not possess a certain quantity of high ideals;

Remarks Before the Merchants Club in Chicago, Illinois

05/09/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The life of duty, not the life of mere ease or mere pleasure—that is the kind of life which makes the great man as it makes the great nation...

Just one word in closing. As I said, we need to display the same qualities now that you needed in 1861.

Lincoln forthwith published that immortal paper, the preliminary declaration of emancipation.

There has never been another war in which the issues at stake were so large.