04/04/1905
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"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."
"These problems are very difficult."
"We will govern them primarily in their interests, but in our own interests also."
"An efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace, but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come the result shall be honorable to our good name and favorable t..."