Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I don't know whether the undergraduates realize what a beautiful building, what a beautiful hall, what beautiful surroundings, these are."

"And now I am going to ask you to join with me in three times three for Col. Higginson."

"I do not believe that such supervision can come effectively through the State, nor that it can effectively come through the municipality."

"If you have to choose between being noxious and merely harmless, of course, choose to be harmless."