Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"The one all-essential thing in America, the thing that underlies everything else, is to have the average American a good man or a good woman; and if there is any one thing that I respect more than a g..."

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

"Now, think what it means to have the President of the United States greeted as he has been today."

"Poor, indeed, would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than when he came into it."