Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We can not too highly honor him."

"If we did not go through the trials and troubles that they did, we at least did the best we could."

"A man who fails to show such regard for his fellow stamps himself as being unfit to do his duty in American life."

"The man who seeks to inspire one set of Americans to hate another because of difference of creed, because of difference of locality, difference of occupation, or of wealth, is a curse to the republic."