Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Seriously, let me thank you and the members of the Arctic Brotherhood for their greeting and their gifts.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska, so that the people of the Territory may have some recognize...

The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.

I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers.