Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers.

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.

I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing.