"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 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."
"Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy."
"I am glad indeed to see you, to see the men, the women, and the children."
"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..."
"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."
"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."
"it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans."
"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."
"Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more interested in its citizenship."
"When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became inevitable, and was pressed upon him, he met it as he and you had met the crisis of 1861."
"I have never tasted, not even at the wonderful banquet that I have attended in San Francisco, anything quite so good."
"I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American."
"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."
"Proud of your State? Of course you are proud of your State."
"This is a government of freemen"
"I should be sorry indeed if there were not societies like those of the Native Sons and Native Daughters in this State to keep alive the sense of historic continuity with the State's mighty past."
