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

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

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

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

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.

I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.