Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I am deeply touched by the beautiful gift you have given me.

None of the men of my own generation or of this younger, stand as close to me as you of my regiment, as the men of the Spanish War do,

I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits w...