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

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.

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

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

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