Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a ...

I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.

There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man.

I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many an Old World empire...