Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place."

"I believe in you, my countrymen; I believe in our people, and therefore I believe that they will dare to be great."

"It is a very great pleasure to be here."

"A nation like ours, with the unique position of fronting at once on the Atlantic and the Pacific, a nation forced by the mere fact of destiny to play a great, a mighty, a masterful part in the world, ..."