Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We do not want the absentee proprietor.

I do not believe that Congress has for many years passed any law relating to our internal development so wise as the irrigation law of a yea...

Best of all it is to have what counts for more than body and more than mind, character—character, into which a good many different elements ...

I congratulate you upon the output from the mines, next the ranches, but most of all the children.