Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"This work of expansion was by far the greatest work of our people during the years that intervened between the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War."

"Great peoples must have in addition the governmental capacity which comes only when individuals fully recognize their duties to one another and to the whole body politic."

"We have met here today to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the event which more than any other, after the foundation of the Government and always excepting its preservation, determined the cha..."

"Our currency laws have been recently improved by specific declarations intended to secure permanency of values; but this does not imply that these laws may not be further improved and strengthened."