Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I have not got much to say to you, because since I have been in California I have felt a good deal more like learning than teaching.

Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy.

That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops.

I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in business, in domestic life...