Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."

"I most earnestly hope that this work will ever be of a peaceful character"

"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,"

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in ..."