Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I want to congratulate you on the enterprise and forethought you have shown in your irrigation scheme here.

We are trying here in America on the largest and most complete scale that it has been tried, the experiment of having a free people govern i...

When I became President, one of the first things to which I devoted my attention was to try to bring about a fuller plan of irrigation, for ...

We are bound to make a success of it, not for our sakes, but for the sake of mankind.