We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result.

Nothing could have pleased me more than to have received this gift from the men of the yard, and I appreciate it.

I am happy to say that during the last year or two the National Legislature has begun to realize its responsibilities in reference to Alaska;

The spirit of class hatred is as base if it takes one shape as if it takes the other.

We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the loftiest lines.

It is not open to you to say that you will or will not make that return as you choose.

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

There is no other body of water in the world which confers upon the commonwealth possessing it quite the natural advantages that Puget Sound confers upon this State; and there is no other State in the Union, and I include all of them…

I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me.

This government cannot and shall not become a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers.

I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there and make it in very fact as well as in name an integral part of this Republic.

Stand just as quiet as possible; do not sway; just stand as quiet as possible.

I do not believe that even you yourselves realize how great the future is that stretches before this country.

It is because of what they did that the President of the United States can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Rio Grande to the forty-ninth parallel and be at home everywhere.

I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its crop of children.

With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansionists.

If you were not I would want to know what was the matter with you.