Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to California."

"A naval war is two-thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which has gone on for years preceding its outbreak."

"I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it."

"In the last analysis it is the man's own character which is and must ever be the determining factor in his success or failure in life"