Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I should think ill of any man here who did not wish to leave his children a little better and not a little worse off materially than he was."

"The great prizes come more or less by accident."

"We need good laws, we need honest administration of the laws, and we cannot afford to be contented with less."

"I have come, as I said, not to make a set speech, but to thank you for your greeting and to assure you that not one meeting which I have attended since I have been President has given me greater pleas..."