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

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

No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.

I guess you do not wonder that I am fond of the men of my regiment.

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

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

This is a government of freemen

I most earnestly hope that this work will ever be of a peaceful character

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

I should be sorry indeed if there were not societies like those of the Native Sons and Native Daughters in this State to keep alive the sense of historic continuity with the State's mighty past.

I want to thank you and my comrades of the Spanish-American War from my heart;

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

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

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

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

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

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