Remarks in Lewiston, Maine
08/25/1902
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If you were not I would want to know what was the matter with you.
The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy.
The best possible assurance against war is an adequate navy.
With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansionists.