I ask for a navy, primarily, because it is the surest means of keeping peace; and also because if war does come, surely ...
With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansi...
I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its...
The only way to do in building up the Navy is to keep on with it.
Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situatio...
Never draw unless you mean to shoot.
It is no wonder the people of Washington have shown themselves true to the practices and principles of the men who fough...
The best possible assurance against war is an adequate navy.
We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up th...
It is a good thing to cheer her, but it is a better thing to see that we keep on building other ships like her, but even...
We have met to commemorate a mighty pioneer feat, a feat of the old days, when men needed to call upon every ounce of co...
I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it...
Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him.
If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation.
I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in t...
Whether we wish it or not we have to be a great power; we have to play a great part.
If he is worth his salt he will work.
I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;
