Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"In addition to honesty and decency you must have courage."

"We need good laws, we need honest and upright administration of the laws, but we need as the fundamental prerequisite for good government a high average standard of good citizenship in the men who mak..."

"I needed no pressing to accept the invitation."

"In raising my own regiment, I found that there was no group of our citizens from whom better men could be drawn."