02/08/1909
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We have met to commemorate a mighty pioneer feat, a feat of the old days, when men needed to call upon every ounce of courage and hardihood and manliness they possessed in order ta make good our claim..."
"I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in the past by the pioneers who won this land by making ready for the future."
"Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him."
"We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up the Navy."