Our Past Has Gone Into History.

I Do Not Prize The Word Cheap. It Is Not A Word Of Inspiration. It Is The Badge Of Poverty, The Signal Of Distress. Cheap Merchandise Means Cheap Men And Cheap Men Mean A Cheap Country.

The More Profoundly We Study This Wonderful Book, And The More Closely We Observe Its Divine Precepts, The Better Citizens We Will Become And The Higher Will Be Our Destiny As A Nation.

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 . . .

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.

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.