Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there and make it in very fact as well as in name an integral par..."

"I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers."

"We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;"

"Very few European races have exercised a more profound influence upon Europe, and none has had a more heroic history, than the race occupying the Scandinavian countries of the Old World."