Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The courts would retain, no matter what the legislature did, the power to interfere and upset any action that was confiscatory in its nature.

Remarks at the Banquet of the Iroquois Club in Chicago, Illinois

05/09/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The Executive order of March 10, 1905, setting apart certain lands in Utah as an addition to the Navaho Indian Reservation, is hereby cancel...

it is hereby ordered that the following-described lands situated in said State be, and the same are hereby, withheld from sale and entry and...

by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that Executive Orders dated December 27, 1875, and December 29, 1891, ...

The public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving the same as a public reservation.