I am sure that the others will not mind my saying a special word of greeting to two sets of men.

Envy is merely the meanest form of admiration, and a man who envies another admits thereby his own inferiority.

In the last analysis it is the man's own character which is and must ever be the determining factor in his success or failure in life

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to California.

I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it.

Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian.

I am glad that we have the chance to erect a monument to commemorate a naval victory of the United States.

I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities.

We won at Manila because the shipbuilders of the country, including those here at San Francisco, under the wise provisions of Congress, had for fifteen years before been preparing the navy.

The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a self-respecting people to be engaged in.

Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy.

No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom every American owes so much—the enlisted men of the United States navy.

I do not ask of you, men and women here today, good citizenship as a favor to the State.

I wish to take this opportunity of thanking the men who work in the Navy Yard for the quality of the work that they do.

The shots that count in battle are the shots that hit, and only those.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the capacity of our soldiers and sailors while denying them the material which we are in honor bound to give them in order that their splendid natural qualities shall be fitly supplemented.

Applaud the navy and what it has done. That is first-class. But make your applause count by seeing that the good work goes on.

I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in business, in domestic life, in every way.