Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

As you have for your good fortune been placed down in this beautiful region with its wonderful climate, with its soil, with all the chance f...

In the last analysis the nation will go up or go down according to the standard of the average man or woman.

Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.