That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
More William McKinley Quotes
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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
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The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.
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We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth
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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
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