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.

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.

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

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

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

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

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.