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.

Our past has gone into history.

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

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 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?

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

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.