Expositions are the timekeepers of progress

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.