Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Any qualified person desiring to make entry of any of these lands shall execute in person within the limits of the Pierre, South Dakota, land district an affidavit showing his qualifications to enter ..."

"such of said lands as are unreserved and undisposed of shall on and after date hereof be subject to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite laws and of Sec. 2455 R.S., as a..."

"To them it was given to perform the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the Union."

"There must be vested in the Federal Government a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing interstate business."