Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result."

"I try to practice it myself, too."

"It is because of what they did that the President of the United States can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Rio Grande to the forty-ninth parallel and be at home everywhere."

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