Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

For he died in the fulness of time, serving his country with entire devotion—a death that every man may well envy.

There must be vested in the Federal Government a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing interstate business.

To them it was given to perform the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the Union.

The power of the Nation must be exerted to stop crimes of cunning no less than crimes of violence.