Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, agriculture of so many...

We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.

All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.

It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.