Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I wish to bid you welcome to Washington, and to say but a word of greeting, and that word shall take the form of a warning and a hope.

Remarks at a Dinner of the Periodical Publishers' Association of America

04/06/1904

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The only way to obtain good government is for each man to do his own share.

And the best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy.

Each of us, unless he is contented to be a cumberer of the earth's surface, must strive to do his life-work with his whole heart.

We ought to say it as a reminder to us that we are not to be excused if in the future we do any less well than has been done in the past.