Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent, and here I am addressing an American audience with the same ideals, the same aspirations...

Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

We have begun to take our position as a world power, a power situated on a continent fronting on two oceans, and we must have a navy to asse...