Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"In the last analysis the nation will go up or go down according to the standard of the average man or woman."

"Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them."

"Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them."

"The poorest life that any one can live from the standpoint of pleasure is the life that has nothing but pleasure as its end and aim."