Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I thank you for having given me the opportunity this afternoon to come before you and to lay the corner-stone of this building.

Remarks at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the McKinley Memorial Ohio College of Government of the American University

05/13/1902

More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Now, I am going to make a request of the people of Colorado.

You do not know what a pleasure it is to me to get out into this Western country.

Good-bye, Good-bye.

If a lot of newspaper men start to come in after me, I will have to come home; that's all there is to it.