Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"It will be a bad day for this country and a worse day for all educative institutions in this country if ever such a call is made, and the men of college training do not feel it peculiarly incumbent up..."

"Let me thank you for coming out to see me, and say how I have enjoyed coming here."

"I am glad to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you to strive toward productive scholarship, toward productive citizenship, I can use the presid..."

"It is a fine thing to have before a body of students men who by their practice have rendered it unnecessary that they should preach"