I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its crop of children.

The only shots that count are the shots that hit.

The only way to do in building up the Navy is to keep on with it.

Never draw unless you mean to shoot.

Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situation is such as to require you to take a given position, take it and keep it, and have it definitely understood that what…

We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up the Navy.

I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in the past by the pioneers who won this land by making ready for the future.

If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation.

I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it under Lincoln, in our turn play our part and do aright the lesser tasks of today.

Whether we wish it or not we have to be a great power; we have to play a great part.

Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him.

We have met to commemorate a mighty pioneer feat, a feat of the old days, when men needed to call upon every ounce of courage and hardihood and manliness they possessed in order ta make good our claim to this continent.

It is a good thing to cheer her, but it is a better thing to see that we keep on building other ships like her, but even better.

This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a commonwealth like this is a State.

I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many an Old World empire.

There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man.

I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.

I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.

Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to but little.

I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong.

I pity no man because he has to work.

I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this.

Our government is based upon the rule of a self-respecting majority.

Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a mob, either of them absolutely alien to American ideals.

I should be ashamed of you if you were not