Each Filipino now has a better chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than he ever dreamed of having before—than he could have ever dreamed of acquiring under the rule of any little native oligarchy.

An efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace, but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come the result shall be honorable to our good name and favorable to our national interests.

I thank you for listening.

These problems are very difficult.

Our honor at home, our honor in domestic and internal affairs, is at all times in our own keeping, and depends simply upon the possession of an awakened public conscience.

You need those qualities in private life and you need them in public life.

Never in their history has each man had, as he has now, such a good chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The Government, national and state, can mighty easily spoil chances for all of us.

In the army you developed two or three or half a dozen great geniuses.

We are all of us apt to get to talking and thinking of the nation and the state as abstractions.

Government by the majority in Congress had practically come to a stop when Mr. Reed became Speaker.

The good work of building up the navy must go on without ceasing.

We won out because our fathers had iron in their blood, because they dared greatly and did greatly, because when they were convinced where their duty lay they resolutely did it, no matter what the cost.

It is a much easier thing to tell people that you have got a patent recipe that—will save them from having to take trouble themselves than it is to tell them perfectly plain, homely truths.

That is how the victory comes.

He has got in the first place to be honest and decent.

We should not be here if it were not for them, but their exercise has caused great questions to rise in our national life.

We stand firmly on the Monroe Doctrine.

If we have not got in us the lift toward righteousness, the lift toward something better than material needs, prosperity will be a curse instead of a blessing.

We need good laws, good constitutions, and upright and honest administration of the laws.

I do not care how beautiful a theory is, if it won't fit in with the facts it is of no good.

We will govern them primarily in their interests, but in our own interests also.

Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the only principles according to which it is possible to administer this Republic.

We need other things, too; we have got to have a proper ideal of our lives; each man must do his duty by his neighbor.

We need the will to practice them.