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.

I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities.

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.

The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a self-respecting people to be engaged in.

We won at Manila because the shipbuilders of the country, including those here at San Francisco, under the wise provisions of Congress, had for fifteen years before been preparing the navy.

I am glad that we have the chance to erect a monument to commemorate a naval victory of the United States.

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to California.

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…

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

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.

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

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

it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans.

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.

Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian.

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