Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this."

"I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong."

"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."

"Our government is based upon the rule of a self-respecting majority."