Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

What we need is the performance of duty, of the ordinary duty that the ordinary man or woman has to meet as he or she lives his or her life.

I believe in the future of America, because I believe that the average American man, and the average American woman, is sound at heart.

It is in the interest, and for the protection, of the white man to see that the negro is educated.

We must remember that we leave this country in the hands of the children of today.