Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Our navy is the surest guaranty of peace and the cheapest insurance against war.

Again Washington said: 'Give to manhood the example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.'

Like Lincoln he sought after the noblest objects, and like Lincoln he sought after them by thoroughly practical methods.

As a nation we have had our full share of great men, but the two men of pre-eminent greatness who, as the centuries go on, will surely loom ...