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

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.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

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

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.