There is no other body of water in the world which confers upon the commonwealth possessing it quite the natural advantages that Puget Sound confers upon this State; and there is no other State in the Union, and I include all of them…

I am absolutely confident of the future, not only of this State, but of our entire country.

We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result.

And think how absolutely the event has falsified the predictions of those men.

The spirit of class hatred is as base if it takes one shape as if it takes the other.

I want to thank you and through you your fellow workmen for this token.

I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing.

Think of having a Sound with about fifteen hundred miles of possible dockage!

We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the loftiest lines.

I earnestly hope that the need for war will never come to our people.

It is because of what they did that the President of the United States can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Rio Grande to the forty-ninth parallel and be at home everywhere.

Stand just as quiet as possible; do not sway; just stand as quiet as possible.

Seriously, let me thank you and the members of the Arctic Brotherhood for their greeting and their gifts.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska, so that the people of the Territory may have some recognized exponent whose duty it shall be to place their needs before the national legislature.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska,

I do not believe that even you yourselves realize how great the future is that stretches before this country.

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

It is not open to you to say that you will or will not make that return as you choose.

Phenomenal though your growth has been, it has barely begun.

It is no wonder the people of Washington have shown themselves true to the practices and principles of the men who fought in the great war.

I ask for a navy, primarily, because it is the surest means of keeping peace; and also because if war does come, surely there can be no American who will tolerate the idea of its having anything other than a successful issue.

If you were not I would want to know what was the matter with you.

The best possible assurance against war is an adequate navy.

The surest guarantee of peace is an adequate Navy.

With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansionists.