Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"This is a government of freemen"

"I should be sorry indeed if there were not societies like those of the Native Sons and Native Daughters in this State to keep alive the sense of historic continuity with the State's mighty past."

"It is not too much to say that no man since Lincoln was as widely and as universally beloved in this country as was President McKinley."

"I thank you for coming here and for giving me the privilege of joining with you today in these solemn ceremonies of commemoration."