Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom."

"In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good."

"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."