Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Much can be done by the aid of the government, by the aid of the State; but, after all, the fundamental thing in bringing success to any community is the quality of the average man, the average woman,..."

"This government is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob."

"Our object should be sedulously to provide against letting great tracts of land go into the hands of any one man or of any one corporation."

"I doubt if there is any State which will profit more by the increase in the application of irrigation to our needs than is the case with the State of Idaho."