Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

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...

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

I wish to take this opportunity of thanking the men who work in the Navy Yard for the quality of the work that they do.

In the last analysis it is the man's own character which is and must ever be the determining factor in his success or failure in life