We will govern them primarily in their interests, but in our own interests also.

It is impossible to devise anyone perfect solution, and one complete solution, for all the problems of our latter-day industrial civilization.

It is a much easier thing to tell people that you have got a patent recipe that—will save them from having to take trouble themselves than it is to tell them perfectly plain, homely truths.

We won out because our fathers had iron in their blood, because they dared greatly and did greatly, because when they were convinced where their duty lay they resolutely did it, no matter what the cost.

These problems are very difficult.

Each Filipino now has a better chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than he ever dreamed of having before—than he could have ever dreamed of acquiring under the rule of any little native oligarchy.

No improvement in firearms, no perfection of equipment, no change in tactics will avail unless back of them all lies the spirit that sent you and your fellows from '61 to '65, again and again against the Confederate lines.

I do not care how beautiful a theory is, if it won't fit in with the facts it is of no good.

If government cannot go on it is not government.

I thank you for listening.

We need the will to practice them.

You need those qualities in private life and you need them in public life.

An efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace, but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come the result shall be honorable to our good name and favorable to our national interests.

The good work of building up the navy must go on without ceasing.

We stand firmly on the Monroe Doctrine.

Every one of you who has seen or studied about a modern warship knows that it is a singularly delicate and complicated as well as a singularly formidable bit of mechanism.

It is always pleasant to point to an example which we can follow rather than avoid.

Never in their history has each man had, as he has now, such a good chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.