"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny."

"I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president."

"The free man cannot be long an ignorant man."

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

"Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles."

"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."

"Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people."

"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."

"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."

"In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest."

"Expositions are the timekeepers of progress."

"I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform."