Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"To them it was given to perform the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the Union."

"There must be vested in the Federal Government a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing interstate business."

"For he died in the fulness of time, serving his country with entire devotion—a death that every man may well envy."

"There will be no halt in the forward movement toward a full development of this policy."