Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I should count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold if I did not strive to represent the people of the mountains and the plains exactly as much as those of the Mississippi Valley or of either..."

"I congratulate you upon all that has been done, and I am certain that the future will far more than make good the past."

"There can be no greater privilege than to meet a missionary who has done good work."

"I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been astonishing."