Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"There is no other body of water in the world which confers upon the commonwealth possessing it quite the natural advantages that Puget Sound confers upon this State; and there is no other State in the..."

"It is not open to you to say that you will or will not make that return as you choose."

"Very few European races have exercised a more profound influence upon Europe, and none has had a more heroic history, than the race occupying the Scandinavian countries of the Old World."

"Think of having a Sound with about fifteen hundred miles of possible dockage!"