Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .

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.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

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.

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