Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The people of Vermont work with honesty of purpose, the people of Vermont show by their life actions that they are true to an ideal.

Our safety lies in the sanity, the cool hard-headedness, the self-restraint, mingled with the resolute purpose of our people to get the righ...

It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand.

I think that this is a State that favors longevity.