Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The first great problem to be solved, upon the solution of which the success of the rest of the work depended, was the problem of sanitation.

Message to Congress After Returning from the Canal Zone in Panama

12/16/1906

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America...should found this great university in the city of Washington.

I thank you for having given me the opportunity this afternoon to come before you and to lay the corner-stone of this building.

Nothing more need be said than has been said already by those who have addressed you this afternoon.

I earnestly commend this case of unexampled disaster to the generous consideration of the Congress.