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 much—the enlisted men of the United States navy."

"I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in business, in domestic life, in every way."

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

"The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen."