The result as I see it in this ship is a triumph not only of organization and discipline, but of the ready zeal with whi...
Then Joe is dead.
Any man in the whole ship's company who does his full duty can claim as his own the honor and repute of the ship and has...
It is a privilege for any President to come aboard a squadron of American warships such as these.
The man who died this morning was an excellent seaman, who had done his duty faithfully, and who died in the performance...
The Cumberland sank with her flags flying and her guns firing while her decks were awash.
The discipline, the ready subordination of each man, whether officer or enlisted man, to duty, the care taken of the men...
Let each of you officers remember, in the event of war, that while a surrender may sometimes be justifiable, yet that su...
What must impress especially any observer is how essential it is that every individual on a ship like this should do his...
At any time some emergency may arise in which the safety of the entire ship will depend upon the vigilance, intelligence...
I have no respect either for the nation or for the individual that brawls, that invites trouble.
Now we know but one rivalry—the rivalry to see which of us can do the most for the flag of a united country.
I can not say how much it means to me to be greeted as I have been greeted by the men who wore the blue and the men who ...
One thing that, as President of this country, I won't do, is to make a bluff that I can't make good.
I thank you not only for the words which accompany it, but for the spirit which lies behind the words.
As I said at Richmond, second only to the man who wore the blue, I hold the man who wore the gray.
No President of the United States could have been greeted as I have been greeted today and not go back to take up the du...
Now think what it means in a nation for the President of that nation, forty years after one of the greatest wars of all ...
