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 provisions of Congress, had for fifteen years before been preparing the navy.

The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a self-respecting people to be engaged in.

We have a right to expect from the college bred man, the college bred woman, a proper sense of proportion, a proper sense of perspective.

I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities.

A naval war is two-thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which has gone on for years preceding its outbreak.

Applaud the navy and what it has done. That is first-class. But make your applause count by seeing that the good work goes on.

That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops.

It is absolutely essential, if we are to have the proper standard of public life, that promise shall be square with performance.

Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy.

The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen.

No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.

I am sure that the others will not mind my saying a special word of greeting to two sets of men.

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 than teaching.

The shots that count in battle are the shots that hit, and only those.

In the last analysis it is the man's own character which is and must ever be the determining factor in his success or failure in life

I do not ask of you, men and women here today, good citizenship as a favor to the State.

I thank you for coming here and for giving me the privilege of joining with you today in these solemn ceremonies of commemoration.