Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"We have a right to say that this is a pretty big country, because it is."

"If your citizens act as well in peace as those of them I knew in war, it will be a mighty good State."

"I am especially glad to greet the children."

"I was mighty glad to do it, for I think that we Americans have learned the lesson that whatever is good for some of us is good for all of us."