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

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

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.

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

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

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.

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