Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"I do hereby direct that the flags on the White House and the several departmental buildings be displayed at half-staff for a period of thirty days; and that suitable military and naval honors, under t..."

"I advocate that the United States build a navy commensurate with its powers and its needs, because I feel that such a navy will be the surest guaranty and safeguard of peace."

"The United States can hope for a permanent career of peace on only one condition, and that is, on condition of building and maintaining a first-class navy."

"I can not too emphatically say that this is a measure of peace and not of war."