"In my judgment no American industry will be hurt, and many American industries will be benefited by the proposed action."
"I ask this aid for her, because she is weak, because she needs it, because we have already aided her."
"The granting of reciprocity with Cuba is a proposition which stands entirely alone."
"I ask that we help her as she struggles upward along the painful and difficult road of self- governing independence."
"I ask for her certain special economic concessions in return; these economic concessions to benefit us as well as her."
"We are bound by every consideration of honor and expediency to pass commercial measures in the interest of her material well being."
"It is to our advantage as a nation that the growing Cuban market should be controlled by American producers."
"Our soldiers fought to give her freedom; and for three years our representatives, civil and military, have toiled unceasingly, facing disease of a peculiarly sinister and fatal type, with patient and ..."
"it is hereby ordered that the existing boundaries of the Wakeeney land district and of the Colby land district, in the State of Kansas, be, and they are hereby, changed and re-established by the trans..."
"In the case of Cuba, however, there are weighty reasons of morality and of national interest why the policy should be held to have a peculiar application."
"West Pointers have risen to the first rank in all the occupations of civil life."