Special Message
01/03/1909
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
A battleship cannot be improvised.
They did justice as strong men, not as weaklings; and we will show ourselves strong men and not weaklings.
Righteousness finds weakness but a poor yoke-fellow.
I am glad that we, as Americans, have cause to be proud of the army and the navy of the United States—of the men who in the past have upheld...