No improvement in firearms, no perfection of equipment, no change in tactics will avail unless back of them all lies the spirit that sent yo...
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.
I do not care how beautiful a theory is, if it won't fit in with the facts it is of no good.
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 singular...
If government cannot go on it is not government.
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 acco...
It is always pleasant to point to an example which we can follow rather than avoid.
I thank you for listening.
Never in their history has each man had, as he has now, such a good chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
An efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace, but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come th...
He has got in the first place to be honest and decent.
That is how the victory comes.
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...
We have many external problems to solve, but our internal problems are, of course, more serious.
We have got to do it somehow, and I ask that all men stand shoulder to shoulder as Americans to see that they do it well.
The Monroe Doctrine is simply a statement of our very firm belief that on this continent the nations now existing here must be left to work ...