Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"There can be no greater privilege than to meet a missionary who has done good work."

"I should count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold if I did not strive to represent the people of the mountains and the plains exactly as much as those of the Mississippi Valley or of either..."

"I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been astonishing."

"There was in the regiment but one kind of rivalry among those men, and but one would have been tolerated."