05/12/1903
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"I speak in the interests of peace when I ask for an efficient army and navy."
"Such a man fears not the strong and harms not the weak."
"Our policy should be one of cordial friendship for all; and yet we should keep ever before our eyes the fact that we are ourselves a separate people, with our own ideals and standards, and destined, w..."
"We rank as one of the great naval powers of the earth, and we rank as a power for peace."