It is our duty to lift him up; but it is also our duty to remember that there is no earthly use in trying to carry him.

An equal meed of praise belongs to those men who prepared in advance.

We are all of us apt to get to talking and thinking of the nation and the state as abstractions.

We have many external problems to solve, but our internal problems are, of course, more serious.

Our honor at home, our honor in domestic and internal affairs, is at all times in our own keeping, and depends simply upon the possession of an awakened public conscience.

Rifles now instead of bows then, but the man behind the rifle is more important than the rifle itself.

We need good laws, good constitutions, and upright and honest administration of the laws.

That is how the victory comes.

If we have not got in us the lift toward righteousness, the lift toward something better than material needs, prosperity will be a curse instead of a blessing.

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

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

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.

Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the only principles according to which it is possible to administer this Republic.

We need the will to practice them.

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

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.