"Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave. Protection is but the law of nature, the law of…"

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

"Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nat…"

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

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

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

"The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake."

"Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the method…"

"Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and l…"

"The ocean is not wide enough to hold all the sympathy that is streaming from the Old World to the New."