Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Very few European races have exercised a more profound influence upon Europe, and none has had a more heroic history, than the race occupyin...

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

I do not believe that even you yourselves realize how great the future is that stretches before this country.

I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me.