Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We can not too highly honor him.

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

All that the law can do is to give a fair show to each man to develop the best there is in him, guarding him against injustice from others, ...

A man who fails to show such regard for his fellow stamps himself as being unfit to do his duty in American life.