Surely such a thought must thrill us with the resolute purpose so to bear ourselves that the name American shall stand as the symbol of just, generous, and fearless dealing with all men and all nations.

I speak in the interests of peace when I ask for an efficient army and navy.

I want to increase the number of our battleships because they are preventatives of war with other nations.

It is, to me, a matter of great regret that Congress does not provide means for field maneuvers.

The fate of the twentieth century will in no small degree depend upon the quality of citizenship developed on this continent.

Such a man fears not the strong and harms not the weak.

We rank as one of the great naval powers of the earth, and we rank as a power for peace.

Our policy should be one of cordial friendship for all; and yet we should keep ever before our eyes the fact that we are ourselves a separate people, with our own ideals and standards, and destined, whether for better or for worse, to work…

They are a masterful race of rugged character—a race the qualities of whose womanhood have become proverbial, while its men have the elemental, the indispensable virtues of working hard in time of peace and fighting hard in time of war.

Americanism is not a matter of creed, or birthplace, or descent.

Let us be true to ourselves, for we cannot then be false to any man.

He scorns what is base or cruel or dishonest.

The navy is the arm of all others upon which this nation must depend to defend it against all foreign aggressors.

No matter what that occupation may be, as long as there is a real home and as long as those who make up that home do their duty to one another, to their neighbors and to the State, it is of minor consequence whether the man's trade is…

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children.

The woman who is a good wife, a good mother, is entitled to our respect as is no one else; but she is entitled to it only because, and so long as, she is worthy of it.

Into the woman's keeping is committed the destiny of the generations to come after us.

I do not pity you in the least.