"I never doubted that the danger was exaggerated."
"No; we are the champions of the freedom of popular sovereignty wherever it displays or exercises itself throughout both Americas."
"Our own house is not fireproof."
"If danger comes, I want to turn to you and the rest of my fellow countrymen and say, 'Men, are you ready?'"
"I do not want a big Army subject to my personal command."
"I for my part have no jealousy of family sentiment."
"I would be willing to go before any constituency in the United States in the confidence that they were willing to pay for the defense of the Nation."
"The flame has touched even our own continent by drawing in our Canadian neighbors to the north of us, and, except for the South American Continent, there is not one continent upon the whole surface of..."
"We are working out American principles a little faster, because American pulses are beating a little faster."
"The United States has never been negligent of its Navy, despite what some gentlemen may say; least of all has it been negligent in recent years."
"I am not out upon this errand because of any unexpected situation."
"The old cry for the defense of your hearth and home does not seem to me a very handsome appeal."
"Our peers are the men who have spent their great energies outside the narrow circle of their own self-interest."
"The facts of the world are such that it is my duty to counsel my fellow citizens that preparation for national defense can not any longer be postponed."
"She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions."
"I am sure we have never encouraged in America the spirit of militarism, and we shall never have militarism in the United States."
"If these gentlemen could have sat with me reading the dispatches and handling the questions which arise every hour of the twenty-four, they would have known how infinitely difficult it had been to mai..."
"It has always been a feeling of mine that the best place for public servants was in the presence of those they serve."
