Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"You need first of all to distribute the water in space through the irrigating ditches, and then to preserve it in time by storage in reservoirs."

"The law is no respecter of persons."

"We are going to see great manufacturing centers here in Montana taking advantage of the power of your waters."

"While all people are foolish if they violate or rail against the law—wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish—yet the most foolish man in this Republic is the man of wealth who complains because the..."