The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy.
I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its...
If you were not I would want to know what was the matter with you.
Never draw unless you mean to shoot.
The only way to do in building up the Navy is to keep on with it.
Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situatio...
Whether we wish it or not we have to be a great power; we have to play a great part.
We have met to commemorate a mighty pioneer feat, a feat of the old days, when men needed to call upon every ounce of co...
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.
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...
I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in t...
We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up th...
I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it...
The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman.
I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.
I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.
Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.
