Our past has gone into history.

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.

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 . . .

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

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.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

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