Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"But it is of high consequence to the country that the statistical work of the census shall be conducted with entire accuracy."

"The policy of conservation is perhaps the most typical example of the general policies which this Government has made peculiarly its own during the opening years of the present century."

"As it stands it is an irrefutable proof that the conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation."

"It is essential that it should correctly describe the general situation; and that the present inventory does."