Teddy Roosevelt: “She has produced great generals and mighty admirals; her fighting men, afloat and ashore, show all the heroic courage…”

“She has produced great generals and mighty admirals; her fighting men, afloat and ashore, show all the heroic courage, the unquestioning, unfaltering loyalty, the splendid indifference to hardship and death, which marked the Loyal Ronins; and they show also that they possess the highest ideal of patriotism.”