Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Think of having a Sound with about fifteen hundred miles of possible dockage!"

"The spirit of class hatred is as base if it takes one shape as if it takes the other."

"We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the loftiest lines."

"I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me."