[commenting of support of the war shortly before the presidential election] 
"We do not want the Filipinos. We want the Philippines. The islands are enormously rich, but unfortunately they are infested with Filipinos. There are many millions there, and it is to be feared their extinction will be slow. The use of techniques that would impress the Malayan mind, by the rack, the thumbscrew, the trial by fire, the trial by molten lead, and boiling insurgents alive.”