Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The country will be all right if the average man is decent and clean in his home life.

Remarks at the City Park in Little Rock, Arkansas

10/24/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.

If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.

I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citizen.

Now I feel that we did not give it half enough.