Whitelaw Reid: “Lift your eyes and expand your conceptions to take in the magnitude of her destiny.”

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.