Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Years count differently at different places and at different times."

"I do not wish us ever as a nation to take a position from which we have to retreat."

"Out of and from each we have gained something for our national character; to each we owe something special for what it has contributed to us as a people."

"It is gratifying to know, what we would of course assume, that the government of Russia shows the feelings of horror and indignation with which the American people look upon the outrages at Kishineff ..."