Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so that it will be dangerous to the community even more than to the evil attacked."

"If any man tells you that he can advance a specific by which all the evils of the body politic will be made to disappear, distrust him, for if he is honest he knows not what he says."

"The man who lives simply, and justly, and honor ably, whether rich or poor, is a good citizen."

"You men who fought in that war did the greatest deed which men have ever done."