The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

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

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.

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.

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

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