Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were able to acquire or to inherit because of our system of government, to objects so entirely worthy and so entirely admirable as the foundation of a great seat of learning such as this.

05/11/1903

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