Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I advocate that the United States build a navy commensurate with its powers and its needs, because I feel that such a navy will be the surest guaranty and safeguard of peace."

"The United States can hope for a permanent career of peace on only one condition, and that is, on condition of building and maintaining a first-class navy."

"To carry out this policy is but to act in the spirit of George Washington."

"It is worth considering whether it would not give greater popular confidence in the impartiality of sentences for contempt if it was required that the issue should be decided by another judge than the..."