Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civilization at the expense of barbarism and savagery has been for centuries one of the most potent factors in the progress of humanity."

"Washington and Lincoln—the man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it—stand head and shoulders above all our other public men, and have by common consent won the righ..."

"Peace and freedom—are there two better objects for which a soldier can fight?"

"Upon your success depended all the future of the people on this continent, and much of the future of mankind as a whole."