Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We have grown to accept it as an axiomatic truth of our American life that the man is to be treated on his worth as a man.

Remarks at the Celebration of the 110th Anniversary of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church

11/19/1904

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Had it not been for the word the deeds could not have taken place; but without the deeds the word would have been the idlest breath.

Of course if the law does not do that, it fails in its duty.

If we did not go through the trials and troubles that they did, we at least did the best we could.

We have Biblical authority, as well as the authority of common sense, for the statement that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike...