Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California."

"I am glad to meet all of you."

"Success will come in the long run to the man or the nation possessing the attributes that have conquered success from the days when we first have written records of the nations of mankind."

"This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a commonwealth like this is a State."