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.

It does not make any difference what work the man is doing if he does it well.

If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.

I have enjoyed being here.

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.

Now I feel that we did not give it half enough.

I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the capacity of our soldiers and sailors while denying them the material which we are in honor bound to give them in order…

The shots that count in battle are the shots that hit, and only those.

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.

Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian.

I am sure that the others will not mind my saying a special word of greeting to two sets of men.

No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.

That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops.

Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy.

Applaud the navy and what it has done. That is first-class. But make your applause count by seeing that the good work goes on.

We have a right to expect from the college bred man, the college bred woman, a proper sense of proportion, a proper sense of perspective.