Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof

Proclamation 541—Modification of the Boundaries of the Madison Forest Reserve

03/27/1905

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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!

Any man who claims that there can be liberty in spite of and against the law is claiming that anarchy is liberty.

I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city.

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 ...