Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"If he does not have it, no matter what other qualities he may have, he will find himself at the mercy of those who, without possessing his desire to do right, know only too well how to make the wrong ..."

"If a man is strong in mind and body and misuses his strength then he becomes simply a foe to the body politic, to be hunted down by all decent men."

"The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well, who counts the deed itself as his reward."

"The man who counts is the man who is decent and who makes himself felt as a force for decency, for cleanliness, for civic righteousness."