Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

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

"I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities."

"The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen."

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