Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska, so that the people of the Territory may have some recognized exponent whose duty it shall be to place their needs befor..."

"I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there and make it in very fact as well as in name an integral par..."

"And think how absolutely the event has falsified the predictions of those men."

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