Never draw unless you mean to shoot.
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.
The only shots that count are the shots that hit.
I ask for a navy, primarily, because it is the surest means of keeping peace; and also because if war does come, surely there can be no Amer...
Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situation is such as to requ...
The best possible assurance against war is an adequate navy.
The only way to do in building up the Navy is to keep on with it.
The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy.
I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in the past by the pione...
We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up the Navy.
Whether we wish it or not we have to be a great power; we have to play a great part.
If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation.
I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it under Lincoln, in o...
We have met to commemorate a mighty pioneer feat, a feat of the old days, when men needed to call upon every ounce of courage and hardihood ...
It is a good thing to cheer her, but it is a better thing to see that we keep on building other ships like her, but even better.
Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him.
I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many an Old World empire...
