Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

If you did not do your work well this Republic would not endure beyond the span of the generation.

Remarks Before the National Educational Association in Ocean Grove, New Jersey

07/06/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Thou shalt serve the Lord with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and in all thy mind.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

The life of duty, not the life of mere ease or mere pleasure—that is the kind of life which makes the great man as it makes the great nation...

My faith that it will show no falling off is based upon my faith in the character of our average citizenship.