I believe in children

I am deeply touched by the beautiful gift you have given me.

For that reason I hail with especial pleasure the existence of such societies as those which seek to band together the young men and young women native born to this State.

None of the men of my own generation or of this younger, stand as close to me as you of my regiment, as the men of the Spanish War do,

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory…

I should be sorry indeed if there were not societies like those of the Native Sons and Native Daughters in this State to keep alive the sense of historic continuity with the State's mighty past.

It is not too much to say that no man since Lincoln was as widely and as universally beloved in this country as was President McKinley.

I guess you do not wonder that I am fond of the men of my regiment.

The pioneer days have gone, but the need for the old pioneer virtues remains as great as ever.

I want to thank you and my comrades of the Spanish-American War from my heart;

This is a government of freemen

San Francisco is not on the westernmost verge of our possessions.

Proud of your State? Of course you are proud of your State.

I think it is getting to be fairly understood that that is our foreign policy.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

I have never tasted, not even at the wonderful banquet that I have attended in San Francisco, anything quite so good.

I most earnestly hope that this work will ever be of a peaceful character

I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American.