Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I wish to thank you from my heart for the kind words that you have just spoken.

Remarks at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri

11/25/1904

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness.

We know that self-government is difficult.

We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.

We have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past.