Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"One secret, perhaps I might say the chief secret, of Mr. Blaine's extraordinary hold upon the affections of his countrymen was his entirely genuine and unaffected Americanism."

"In the army you developed two or three or half a dozen great geniuses."

"Every one of you who has seen or studied about a modern warship knows that it is a singularly delicate and complicated as well as a singularly formidable bit of mechanism."

"These problems are very difficult."