Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Americanism is not a matter of birthplace, of ancestry, of creed, of occupation; Americanism is a matter of the spirit that is within man's soul."

"It is eminently fitting that these services should now be commemorated in suitable manner."

"It is not a matter of credit to be honest, any more than it is a matter of credit to a soldier to be brave."

"Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged."