Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I need not tell you that what really counts in any State is the character of the men and women who make up that State.

Remarks in South McAlester, Indian Territory

04/04/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

We rank as one of the great naval powers of the earth, and we rank as a power for peace.

The navy is the arm of all others upon which this nation must depend to defend it against all foreign aggressors.

Into the woman's keeping is committed the destiny of the generations to come after us.

But the nation is in a bad way if there is no real home, if the family is not of the right kind; if the man is not a good husband and father...