Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I ask that we help her as she struggles upward along the painful and difficult road of self- governing independence."

"it is hereby ordered that the existing boundaries of the Wakeeney land district and of the Colby land district, in the State of Kansas, be, and they are hereby, changed and re-established by the trans..."

"The granting of reciprocity with Cuba is a proposition which stands entirely alone."

"In the case of Cuba, however, there are weighty reasons of morality and of national interest why the policy should be held to have a peculiar application."