Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"My regiment was raised under the walls of that historic building of which it was said that Thermopylæ had its messenger of death, but the Alamo had none."

"I shall go away a stronger and a better American for having been in this mighty Commonwealth of Texas."

"A glorious memory is the best of all things for a nation, if the purpose of that nation is to try to rise level with that memory."

"We are proud now of what our fathers did in the days that tried men's souls."