April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. - Mark Twain

It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people [the Filipinos] free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.