We won at Manila because the shipbuilders of the country, including those here at San Francisco, under the wise provisions of Congress, had for fifteen years before been preparing ...
I am glad indeed to see you, to see the men, the women, and the children.
Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian.
The shots that count in battle are the shots that hit, and only those.
I am glad that we have the chance to erect a monument to commemorate a naval victory of the United States.
I am sure that the others will not mind my saying a special word of greeting to two sets of men.
That is the spirit of devotion to the flag and the country, and to one's fellows which the United States navy develops.
I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to Californi...
I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it.
No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.
A naval war is two-thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which has gone on for yea...