Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.

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

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.