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 . . .

The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

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

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

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.