Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We need their ruggedness of body, their keen and vigorous minds, and above all their dominant quality of forceful character."

"Our homage to-day to the memory of Sherman comes from the depths of our being."

"The life of duty, not the life of mere ease or mere pleasure—that is the kind of life which makes the great man as it makes the great nation."

"Leadership is of avail only so far as there is wise and resolute public sentiment behind it."