Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I think I was a fairly good American a week ago when I came into your State, but I am a better one now."

"There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself."

"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind."

"It is not enough to have mere efficiency."