Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy."

"If you were not I would want to know what was the matter with you."

"Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situation is such as to require you to take a given position, take it and keep it, and h..."

"The best possible assurance against war is an adequate navy."