Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"There can be no greater privilege than to meet a missionary who has done good work."

"The object of the law is to provide small irrigated farms to actual settlers, to actual home-makers; the land is given away ultimately in small tracts under the terms of the homestead act, the settler..."

"The policy is a policy of encouragement to the home-maker, to the man who comes to establish his home."

"I congratulate you upon what you are doing for yourselves."