Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"San Francisco is not on the westernmost verge of our possessions."

"The pioneer days have gone, but the need for the old pioneer virtues remains as great as ever."

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in ..."

"When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became inevitable, and was pressed upon him, he met it as he and you had met the crisis of 1861."