I speak in the interest of peace when I ask for an efficient Army and Navy.

This is a people that will not abandon the Monroe Doctrine, will not stop building the Isthmian Canal, will not surrender its hold upon the islands of the sea.

Study what has been done in the past by the men who have made errors no less than by the men who have won triumphs, and profit alike by the study of the triumphs and by the study of the errors.

We ought to avoid ignorant praise as much as ignorant blame.

It is only by making a correct diagnosis that we can find out how to treat any given disease.

He wants to find out the facts; for to take either too dark or too rosy a view may be fatal to the patient.

Try to find out what the facts really are, try to find out what the good qualities, what the defects; what the good side is in any portion of our Government, what the defect is in any portion of our Government.

State the truth; do not hysterically exaggerate what is good; do not hysterically exaggerate what is evil.

Find out the facts; and then with your whole heart set to work to preserve and make better the good and to cut out and do away with the evil.

The effect that the doctor has upon the body of the patient is in very many cases no greater than the effect that he has upon the patient’s mind.

Each one of you here has resting upon him not only a great responsibility for the care of the body of the officer or enlisted man who will be under his supervision, but a care—which ought not to be too consciously shown, but which should…

The morale of the entire ship’s company, of the entire body of men with which you are to be thrown, will be sensibly affected by the way in which each of you does his duty.

I want you now, as you graduate, to feel that on your shoulders rests a great weight of responsibility; that your position is one of high honor, and that it is impossible to hold a position of high honor and not hold it under penalty of…

Only adequate preparation in advance will obviate the trouble which otherwise is certain to come if we have a war.

Let critics remember not to blame the people in power when such a breakdown comes, but to blame themselves, the people of the United States, because they have not had the forethought to take the steps in advance which would prevent such…

If we fail in it then it is our responsibility, not yours.

I want to impress, with all the strength that in me lies, upon every medical man in either the Army or the Navy, to remember always that in any time of crisis the chances are that you will have to work with imperfect implements.

If you sit down and do nothing but say you could have done excellently if only you had had the right implements to work with, you will show your unfitness for your position.

Make up your mind that while you will do all you can to get the best material together in advance, you will not put forward the lack of that material as an excuse for not doing the best work possible with imperfect tools.

Make it a matter of pride to do your utmost, without regard to the inadequacy of your instruments.

For I think that we Americans have learned the lesson that whatever is good for some of us is good for all of us.

We are all going to go up, and not down, because we are going to go together.

Oh, my fellow-countrymen, think what a blessed thing it is that now every man in this land can feel the same pride in the valor and devotion of those who fought for one side and of those who fought for the other!

We were the sons of the men who wore the blue, the sons of the men who wore the gray, and our only desire was to show ourselves not wholly unworthy of the mighty men of the years that are past.

You of this State of Texas have behind you a history containing the deeds of which not only you but all of the country must be forever proud.