Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian."

"That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops."

"it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans."

"We won at Manila because the shipbuilders of the country, including those here at San Francisco, under the wise provisions of Congress, had for fifteen years before been preparing the navy."