We have a right to expect from the college bred man, the college bred woman, a proper sense of proportion, a proper sense of perspective.

I am glad indeed to see you, to see the men, the women, and the children.

That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops.

I am deeply touched by the beautiful gift you have given me.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

I have never tasted, not even at the wonderful banquet that I have attended in San Francisco, anything quite so good.

This is a government of freemen

I think it is getting to be fairly understood that that is our foreign policy.

I thank you for coming here and for giving me the privilege of joining with you today in these solemn ceremonies of commemoration.

Proud of your State? Of course you are proud of your State.

When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became inevitable, and was pressed upon him, he met it as he and you had met the crisis of 1861.

It is not too much to say that no man since Lincoln was as widely and as universally beloved in this country as was President McKinley.

The pioneer days have gone, but the need for the old pioneer virtues remains as great as ever.

For that reason I hail with especial pleasure the existence of such societies as those which seek to band together the young men and young women native born to this State.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American.

San Francisco is not on the westernmost verge of our possessions.

None of the men of my own generation or of this younger, stand as close to me as you of my regiment, as the men of the Spanish War do,