Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the reserved lands within the above-described boundaries.

Proclamation 527—Modification of the Boundries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve

05/15/1904

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness.

We know that self-government is difficult.

We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.

We have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past.