Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I am not surprised at it, because the last two days in California have taught me not to be surprised at anything."

"It is, of course, the merest truism to say that important though it is to develop factories, railroads, farms, commerce, the thing that counts is the development of citizenship."

"To think of the well-nigh incredible fact that all of this that I have been looking at—the city, the development of the country—that it has all occurred within twenty years."

"The thing that has impressed me most is that I am speaking to Americans just as I speak in any other section of the country!"