Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"It will be more difficult in the future than ever before to know your profession, and more essential also;"

"Your duty here at West Point has been to fit men to do well in war."

"During that century no other educational institution in the land has contributed as many names as West Point to the honor roll of the nation's greatest citizens."

"Here we care nothing for the boy's birthplace, nor his creed, nor his social standing."