"I have endeavored without wavering or weariness, so far as the direction of public affairs was committed to me, to carry out the pledges made to the people in 1888."
"If the policies of the administration have not been distinctively and progressively American and Republican policies, the fault has not been in the purpose, but in the execution."
"A vote of want of confidence is asked by our adversaries, and this challenge to a review of what has been done we promptly and gladly accept."
"The notes furnished directly or indirectly by the United States have been the only and the safe and acceptable paper currency of the people."
"Our money is all national money — I might almost say international, for these bills are not only equally and indiscriminately accepted at par in all the States, but in some foreign countries."
"Changes may become necessary, but a national system of currency, safe and acceptable throughout the whole country, is the good fruit of bitter experiences, and I am sure our people will not consent to..."
"The great ships — the fastest upon the sea — which are now in peace profiting by our trade, are, in a secondary sense, warships of their respective governments."
"Few subjects have elicited more discussion or excited more general interest than that of a recovery by the United States of its appropriate share of the ocean carrying trade."
"The resolution of the convention in favor of bimetalism declares, I think, the true and necessary conditions of a movement that has, upon these lines, my cordial adherence and support."
"We may not only hope for, but expect highly beneficial results from this conference, which will now soon assemble."
"I am quite sure that if we should now act upon this subject independently of other nations we would greatly promote their interests and injure our own."
"The safety of the Republic is an intelligent citizenship, and the increased interest manifested in the States in education, the cheerfulness with which the necessary taxes are paid by all classes."
