Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I do not ask of you, men and women here today, good citizenship as a favor to the State."

"No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom every American owes so much—the enlisted men of the United States navy."

"Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian."

"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..."