Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"The policy of conservation is perhaps the most typical example of the general policies which this Government has made peculiarly its own during the opening years of the present century."

"The first of all considerations is the permanent welfare of our people."

"We know now that our mineral resources once exhausted are gone forever."

"With the statements and conclusions of this report I heartily concur, and I commend it to the thoughtful consideration both of the Congress and of our people generally."