"Envy is merely the meanest form of admiration, and a man who envies another admits thereby his own inferiority."
"The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen."
"I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities."
"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."
"I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in business, in domestic life, in every way."
"I wish to take this opportunity of thanking the men who work in the Navy Yard for the quality of the work that they do."
"Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy."
"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."
"It is absolutely essential, if we are to have the proper standard of public life, that promise shall be square with performance."
"Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more interested in its citizenship."
"That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops."
"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."
"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."
"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..."
"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."
"I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it."
"In the last analysis it is the man's own character which is and must ever be the determining factor in his success or failure in life"
"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."
