Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I have enjoyed every hour I have been in your beautiful and wonderful State."

"I do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future."

"A nation like ours, with the unique position of fronting at once on the Atlantic and the Pacific, a nation forced by the mere fact of destiny to play a great, a mighty, a masterful part in the world, ..."

"The one thing on which this country must forever be a unit is the navy."