"It is always pleasant to point to an example which we can follow rather than avoid."
"We need other things, too; we have got to have a proper ideal of our lives; each man must do his duty by his neighbor."
"Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the only principles according to which it is possible to administer this Republic."
"We need the will to practice them."
"You need those qualities in private life and you need them in public life."
"We will govern them primarily in their interests, but in our own interests also."
"It is impossible to devise anyone perfect solution, and one complete solution, for all the problems of our latter-day industrial civilization."
"We should not be here if it were not for them, but their exercise has caused great questions to rise in our national life."
"We stand firmly on the Monroe Doctrine."
"Every one of you who has seen or studied about a modern warship knows that it is a singularly delicate and complicated as well as a singularly formidable bit of mechanism."
"That is how the victory comes."
"You have got to have a superstructure, too."
"I have come here less to teach than to learn"
"The government cannot do everything."
"You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room."
"The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament."
"But education is not enough."
"In this country we have got to have decent and intelligent government, not as a substitute for individual initiative but as a supplement to it."
