Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Rifles now instead of bows then, but the man behind the rifle is more important than the rifle itself.

We should not be here if it were not for them, but their exercise has caused great questions to rise in our national life.

It is impossible to devise anyone perfect solution, and one complete solution, for all the problems of our latter-day industrial civilizatio...

He has got in the first place to be honest and decent.