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 progressive legislative and administrative action for the correction of the evils which every sincere man must admit to have existed in railroad management in the past."

"It is the course of real, of ultimate conservatism."

"We best serve the interests of the honest railway men when we announce that we will follow out precisely this course."