| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26925 |
| QUOTATION: | 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).
Harrison tried to annex Hawaii in 1893. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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