Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Successful self-government, of course, must be based upon the average quality of the citizenship.

It was from Caddo that very many members of my own old regiment came, and you can hardly imagine what a pleasure it is to me to be here to-d...

You cannot afford to let any man represent you in public life if he is crooked.

I can, in a sense, claim to be, by blood, at least, a typical President, for I am half Southerner, half Northerner.