Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the...

The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy.