Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

it is as absurd for the United States to depend upon foreign ships to distribute its products as it would be for a department store to depen...

To fail to establish adequate lines on the Pacific is equivalent to proclaiming to the world that we have neither the ability nor the dispos...

every ship is a missionary of trade

it would, of course, be impossible to preserve discipline in the Army save by pursuing precisely the course that in this case was pursued.