04/04/1905
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"I wish to take this opportunity of thanking the men who work in the Navy Yard for the quality of the work that they do."
"I do not ask of you, men and women here today, good citizenship as a favor to the State."
"We have a right to expect from the college bred man, the college bred woman, a proper sense of proportion, a proper sense of perspective."
"No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom every American owes so much—the enlisted men of the United States navy."