Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation.

The business man or politician who does not tell the truth cheats; and for the cheat we should have no use in any walk of life.

You can pardon most anything in a man who will tell the truth, because you know where that man is; you know what he means.

When I come here to California I am not in the West, I am west of the West.