Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

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

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

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

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.