Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"The great deeds of those that have gone before us must ever serve not as a reason for inaction on our part, but as the keenest of spurs to drive us forward on the path of national greatness and justic..."

"We cannot turn back the wheels of progress."

"The reward of the consciousness of duty well done."

"Character, that compound of honesty and courage and common sense, will avail us more in the long run than any brilliancy on the stump or any advising legislative means and methods."