Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

"Applications for discharges which reach the department except through the commanding officers of vessels shall be without exception disregarded."

"In every case, the recommendation for such discharge must be made by the commanding officer of the vessel on which the man may be serving."

"The great deeds of those that have gone before us must ever serve not as a reason for inaction on our part, but as the keenest of spurs to drive us forward on the path of national greatness and justic..."

"It is eminently proper that on great national holidays, and particularly July Fourth, we should come together, not as representatives of one body, but as Americans, to represent all that makes America..."