Benjamin Harrison actually said...

I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence for peace and good n...

I felt that the honor of our country and of the Navy had been touched, and that nothing was left to us but, in a quiet and dignified and yet...

It was given in a generous spirit, and I think the result of it has been that our relations with that brave people, whose history is so full...

I have felt great interest and enthusiasm in the rebuilding of the American Navy.