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

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

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

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.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

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 . . .