Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is going to be dug honestly and as cheaply as is compatible with efficiency, but with efficiency first.

The courts would retain, no matter what the legislature did, the power to interfere and upset any action that was confiscatory in its nature...

Perhaps the father of a number of children can be excused for saying that of all the classes of our country I think the school teacher deser...

I shall strive to appoint and retain men who will do exactly the same justice to the railroad as they will exact from the railroad.