But whenever the question lay between ourselves and Spain, or France, or Germany, or any foreign power, England stood with us against them.
"And another thing.

Not all Americans boast, but we have a reputation for boasting.

Our Secretary of the Navy gave our navy the whole credit for transporting our soldiers to Europe when England did more than half of it.

At Annapolis there has been a poster, showing a big American sailor with a doughboy on his back, and underneath the words, 'We put them across.' A brigadier general has written a book entitled, How the Marines Saved Paris.

Beside the marines there were some engineers.