Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Lying out at night under those giant Sequoias was lying in a temple built by no hand of man, a temple grander than any human architect could by any possibility build."

"We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort."

"It is particularly a pleasure to be in a State already great, and yet with an infinitely greater future before it."

"I thank you most heartily for your kindness in coming to greet me"