I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it.
No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom ev...
I am glad indeed to see you, to see the men, the women, and the children.
it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans.
I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in busine...
I am sure that the others will not mind my saying a special word of greeting to two sets of men.
No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save o...
That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops.
The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen.
I do not ask of you, men and women here today, good citizenship as a favor to the State.
In the last analysis it is the man's own character which is and must ever be the determining factor in his success or fa...
We have a right to expect from the college bred man, the college bred woman, a proper sense of proportion, a proper sens...
I have not got much to say to you, because since I have been in California I have felt a good deal more like learning th...
Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian.
There is the same sound reason for distrusting the man who promises too much in public that there is for distrusting the...
Applaud the navy and what it has done. That is first-class. But make your applause count by seeing that the good work go...
It is absolutely essential, if we are to have the proper standard of public life, that promise shall be square with perf...
I wish to take this opportunity of thanking the men who work in the Navy Yard for the quality of the work that they do.
