Teddy Roosevelt: “Briefly those theories are, that it is the duty of a first-class Power so far as practicable to carry its ocean mails…”

“Briefly those theories are, that it is the duty of a first-class Power so far as practicable to carry its ocean mails under its own flag; that the fast ocean steamships and their crews, required for such mail service, are valuable auxiliaries to the sea power of a nation.”