Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

I ask that we help her as she struggles upward along the painful and difficult road of self- governing independence.

It is to our advantage as a nation that the growing Cuban market should be controlled by American producers.

It is earnestly to be hoped that we will complete in the same spirit the record so well begun, and show in our dealings with Cuba that stead...