"I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citizen."
"To take advantage of the greatest opportunities you must have the men."
"If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him."
"I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family, a good neighbor, a good man to deal with in business, a goo..."
"Our duty is to lead our lives in a spirit of decency, of courage and of common sense, that will make us fit to be citizens of this great republic."
"I have enjoyed being here."
"Now I feel that we did not give it half enough."
"I am glad indeed to see you, to see the men, the women, and the children."
"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 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."
"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."
"There is the same sound reason for distrusting the man who promises too much in public that there is for distrusting the man who promises too much in private business."
"The shots that count in battle are the shots that hit, and only those."
"I am glad that we have the chance to erect a monument to commemorate a naval victory of the United States."
"I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to California."
"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."
"I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it."
"Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more interested in its citizenship."
