The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation

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

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

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.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.