Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it."

"No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue."

"A naval war is two-thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which has gone on for years preceding its outbreak."

"There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the capacity of our soldiers and sailors while denying them the material which we are..."