The Government of France [...] inform us that Fort de France and the entire island of Martinique are still threatened.

For this purpose I recommend that an appropriation of $500,000 be made, to be immediately available.

The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist; and that the American consul and his family have perished.

I earnestly commend this case of unexampled disaster to the generous consideration of the Congress.

By the President of the United States of America, A Proclamation

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the Shoshone and Bannock Indians…

A battleship cannot be improvised.

The Republic has put up its flag in those islands, and the flag will stay there.

Of course you must have the ability to stand up to the hammering; the courage, the daring, the resolution to endure.

With righteousness must go strength to make that righteousness of avail.

They did justice as strong men, not as weaklings; and we will show ourselves strong men and not weaklings.

Righteousness finds weakness but a poor yoke-fellow.

Honor to the statesmen of the past, and may the statesmen of the present strive to live up to the example they set!

If the navy fails us then we are doomed to defeat.

We are Americans, and that means that we treat Americanism primarily as a matter of spirit and purpose.

From now on throughout your lives there can be no slackness in the performance of duty on your part.

Officers and men alike must realize that in battle the only shots that count are the shots that hit.

We may be sure that the honor of the Republic is safe in their hands.

Where wrong has been done by anyone the wrong-doer shall be punished; but we shall not halt in our great work because some man has happened to do wrong.

And in the names of the mighty men of the past I ask each man here to do his part in seeing that this nation remains true in deed as well as in word to the ideals of the past;

May we prove ourselves true to them, not merely by paying homage to their memory, but by so shaping the policy of this great Republic as to make it evident that we are not unworthy of our sires.

They did justice, and we will do justice.

I am glad that we, as Americans, have cause to be proud of the army and the navy of the United States—of the men who in the past have upheld the honor of the flag, and of their successors, the soldiers and sailors of the present day, who…

It is hereby ordered that the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter and lot 4 of section 32, township one south, range 18 west, San Bernardino base and meridian, California, be and they are hereby reserved for light-house purposes…

It is hereby ordered that the building known as the 'Residence' and the tract of land...be and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the Customs Service.