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

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

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…

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.

Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more interested in its citizenship.

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

There is the same sound reason for distrusting the man who promises too much in public that there is for distrusting the man who promises too much in private business.

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.

I have not got much to say to you, because since I have been in California I have felt a good deal more like learning than teaching.

A naval war is two-thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which has gone on for years preceding its outbreak.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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