It is essential that none of the other great powers shall secure these islands [Hawaii]. Such a possession would not consist with our safety and with the peace of the world.
ATTRIBUTION:
Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901), U.S. president. Special Message to Congress, February 15, 1893. Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President of the United States, p. 215, Government Printing Office (1893).
