06/22/1886
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"I express my unhesitating conviction that the intimacy of our relations with Hawaii should be emphasized."
"Good government has for its objects the protection of every person within its care in the greatest liberty consistent with the good order of society."
"Our Government has consistently maintained its relations of friendship toward all other powers and of neighborly interest toward those whose possessions are contiguous to our own."
"The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individ..."