Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I also examined certain of the schools and saw the school children, both white and colored, speaking with certain of the teachers.

Message to Congress After Returning from the Canal Zone in Panama

12/16/1906

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the thing that counts, of course, is the character of the average citizen, and that is what gives me my supreme faith in the future.

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I con gratulate you still more on the pains you are taking to educate the citizenship of the future.

Get that fact clear in your mind, or you will be laying up for yourselves a store of incalculable disappointment in the future.