All matters pertaining to the Government of the Philippine Islands, except as otherwise provided by law, are placed in the jurisdiction of that department.

I have come to suggest, among other things, that when the forces of nature are steadily working and the tide is rising to meet the moon, you need not be afraid that it will not come to its flood.

It is going to prevail, and that is a very superficial and ignorant view of it which attributes it to mere social unrest.

There was a time when nobody but a lawyer could know enough to run the Government of the United States.

The astonishing thing about the movement which you represent is, not that it has grown so slowly, but that it has grown so rapidly.

We feel the tide; we rejoice in the strength of it; and we shall not quarrel in the long run as to the method of it.

Nature pays no tribute to aristocracy, subscribes to no creed of caste, renders fealty to no monarch or master of any name or kind.

The test of every American must always be, not where he is, but what he is.

Here, no less, hides the mystery of democracy.

We will only keep the door open for them always, and a hearty welcome, —after we have recognized them.

How eloquent this little house within this shrine is of the vigor of democracy!

Here is proof of it.