Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this."

"Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to but little."

"This is to be my last day in California, and I leave the State with the liveliest appreciation of the courtesy with which I have been received."

"The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman."