No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom ev...
Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian.
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 th...
I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities.
Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy.
That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops.
The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen.
There is the same sound reason for distrusting the man who promises too much in public that there is for distrusting the...
Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more...
A naval war is two-thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which...
I am glad that we have the chance to erect a monument to commemorate a naval victory of the United States.
No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save o...
I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond th...
I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the c...
I am sure that the others will not mind my saying a special word of greeting to two sets of men.
Applaud the navy and what it has done. That is first-class. But make your applause count by seeing that the good work go...
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
