The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy.
The best possible assurance against war is an adequate navy.
Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situatio...
With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansi...
I ask for a navy, primarily, because it is the surest means of keeping peace; and also because if war does come, surely ...
I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its...
It is no wonder the people of Washington have shown themselves true to the practices and principles of the men who fough...
Whether we wish it or not we have to be a great power; we have to play a great part.
We have met to commemorate a mighty pioneer feat, a feat of the old days, when men needed to call upon every ounce of co...
I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it...
If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation.
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...
Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him.
I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in t...
We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up th...
I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many...
Success will come in the long run to the man or the nation possessing the attributes that have conquered success from th...
I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;
