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.

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

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

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.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

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

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