"Officers and men alike must realize that in battle the only shots that count are the shots that hit."
"If the navy fails us then we are doomed to defeat."
"A battleship cannot be improvised."
"Where wrong has been done by anyone the wrong-doer shall be punished; but we shall not halt in our great work because some man has happened to do wrong."
"Righteousness finds weakness but a poor yoke-fellow."
"From now on throughout your lives there can be no slackness in the performance of duty on your part."
"We are Americans, and that means that we treat Americanism primarily as a matter of spirit and purpose."
"They did justice, and we will do justice."
"The Republic has put up its flag in those islands, and the flag will stay there."
"They did justice as strong men, not as weaklings; and we will show ourselves strong men and not weaklings."
"May we prove ourselves true to them, not merely by paying homage to their memory, but by so shaping the policy of this great Republic as to make it evident that we are not unworthy of our sires."