"Never draw unless you mean to shoot."
"If you were not I would want to know what was the matter with you."
"The only shots that count are the shots that hit."
"The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy."
"With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansionists."
"Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situation is such as to require you to take a given position, take it and keep it, and h..."
"I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its crop of children."
"The best possible assurance against war is an adequate navy."
"We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up the Navy."
"Whether we wish it or not we have to be a great power; we have to play a great part."
"It is a good thing to cheer her, but it is a better thing to see that we keep on building other ships like her, but even better."
"If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation."
"Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him."
"We have met to commemorate a mighty pioneer feat, a feat of the old days, when men needed to call upon every ounce of courage and hardihood and manliness they possessed in order ta make good our claim..."
"I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it under Lincoln, in our turn play our part and do aright the lesser tasks of toda..."
"I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in the past by the pioneers who won this land by making ready for the future."
"This is to be my last day in California, and I leave the State with the liveliest appreciation of the courtesy with which I have been received."
"Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a mob, either of them absolutely alien to American ideals."
