Our Past Has Gone Into

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.

I Have Already Transmitted To Congress The Report Of The Naval Court Of Inquiry On The Destruction Of The Battleship Maine In The Harbor Of Havana During The Night Of The Fifteenth Of February. The Destruction Of That Noble Vessel Has Filled The National Heart With Inexpressible Horror. Two Hundred And Fifty-eight Brave Sailors And Marines And Two Officers Of Our Navy, Reposing In The Fancied Security Of A Friendly Harbor, Have Been Hurled To Death, Grief And Want Brought To Their Homes And Sorrow To The Nation.

We Cannot Gamble With Anything So Sacred As Money.

I Have Never Been In Doubt Since I Was Old Enough To Think Intelligently That I Would Someday Be Made President.

The Best Way For The Government To Maintain Its Credit Is To Pay As It Goes-not By Resorting To Loans, But By Keeping Out Of Debt-through An Adequate Income Secured By A System Of Taxation, External Or Internal, Or Both.