Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I have no respect either for the nation or for the individual that brawls, that invites trouble.

I don't say anything unless I mean it.

I want, on behalf of this nation, the peace that comes not to the coward, who cringes for it, but the peace of the just man armed, who asks ...

One thing that, as President of this country, I won't do, is to make a bluff that I can't make good.