Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I feel we owe a peculiar debt of gratitude to those who have taken the lead in securing this building.

Remarks at the Naval Young Men's Christian Association in Brooklyn, New York City

05/29/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citizen.

I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family,...

I have enjoyed being here.

Now I feel that we did not give it half enough.