I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.
I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citize...
To take advantage of the greatest opportunities you must have the men.
If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.
Our duty is to lead our lives in a spirit of decency, of courage and of common sense, that will make us fit to be citize...
I have enjoyed being here.
Now I feel that we did not give it half enough.
Envy is merely the meanest form of admiration, and a man who envies another admits thereby his own inferiority.
A naval war is two-thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which...
Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy.
I am glad that we have the chance to erect a monument to commemorate a naval victory of the United States.
We won at Manila because the shipbuilders of the country, including those here at San Francisco, under the wise provisio...
The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a self-resp...
The shots that count in battle are the shots that hit, and only those.
I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities.
I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond th...
Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more...
There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the c...
