Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"If we did not go through the trials and troubles that they did, we at least did the best we could."

"I ask this audience—I ask the State of Illinois—I ask the entire Union to see to it, that there is no fault in the upbuilding and the maintaining of the American navy."

"Had it not been for the word the deeds could not have taken place; but without the deeds the word would have been the idlest breath."

"I have literally but a moment here."