Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result.

Remarks at the Alaskan Reception in Seattle, Washington

05/22/1903

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I also inclose a report from the Secretary of State submitting the convention for my consideration.

The United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the Republic of Panama.

We can not have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind.

We have cause as a nation to be thankful for the steps that have been so successfully taken to put these principles into effect.