I am very glad to have the pleasure of seeing you and saying a word of greeting to you.

They have left us a legacy not only of how to do our duty in war, but in peace.

I am delighted to be in this great and beautiful State today,

I think the American stock is a middling good one, and I do not want to see it die out.

Let us of the younger generation try to keep up their standard.

I do hereby invite all the nations of the earth to take part in the commemoration of an event which has had a far reaching effect upon the course of human history.

The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall be open to settlement from the date hereof

it appears that the public good would be promoted by releasing and excluding certain lands from the said forest reserve

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Plumas Forest Reserve.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Pinal Mountains Forest Reserve

Such a man fears not the strong and harms not the weak.

Americanism is not a matter of creed, or birthplace, or descent.

Surely such a thought must thrill us with the resolute purpose so to bear ourselves that the name American shall stand as the symbol of just, generous, and fearless dealing with all men and all nations.

The navy is the arm of all others upon which this nation must depend to defend it against all foreign aggressors.

I want to increase the number of our battleships because they are preventatives of war with other nations.

Our policy should be one of cordial friendship for all; and yet we should keep ever before our eyes the fact that we are ourselves a separate people, with our own ideals and standards, and destined, whether for better or for worse, to work…

He scorns what is base or cruel or dishonest.

I speak in the interests of peace when I ask for an efficient army and navy.

That man is the best American who has in him the American spirit, the American soul.

The fate of the twentieth century will in no small degree depend upon the quality of citizenship developed on this continent.

Let us be true to ourselves, for we cannot then be false to any man.

We rank as one of the great naval powers of the earth, and we rank as a power for peace.

It is, to me, a matter of great regret that Congress does not provide means for field maneuvers.

They are a masterful race of rugged character—a race the qualities of whose womanhood have become proverbial, while its men have the elemental, the indispensable virtues of working hard in time of peace and fighting hard in time of war.

Yours is the work which is never ended.