Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Righteousness finds weakness but a poor yoke-fellow.

Where wrong has been done by anyone the wrong-doer shall be punished; but we shall not halt in our great work because some man has happened ...

I am glad that we, as Americans, have cause to be proud of the army and the navy of the United States—of the men who in the past have upheld...

If the navy fails us then we are doomed to defeat.