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."

"Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian."

"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."

"I do not ask of you, men and women here today, good citizenship as a favor to the State."