Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.

I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing.

I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its crop of children.