Our past has gone into history.

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.

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.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

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

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

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.