Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I am glad to be welcomed by all of you, but most of all by the men of the Grand Army, and after them by my own comrades of the National Guard."

"I am enjoying so much coming into California."

"I like your stock and I am glad it is not dying out."

"I have felt that the events of the last five or six years have been steadily hastening the day when the Pacific will loom in the world's commerce as the Atlantic now looms."