Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a ...

It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work, as long as that work is honorable.

Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.

I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;