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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

William McKinley

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Interest Peace Remember Victory War
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Best Government Internal Loan Security Tax Way
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Government Independent People
The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Break Freedom Law Liberty Ourselves
The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice?
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Effort Hard Work Ourselves Path Progress Sacrifice
Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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Battle One Liner Win
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
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Command Faith Father God Himself Humble Teaching Walk
Our past has gone into history.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

History One Liner Past
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 MCKINLEY

Example History Hope Inspirational Life Man Time
The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Citizenship Close Destiny Nation Observation Ourselves Wonderful
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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Flag Humanity Plant Sake Territory
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Man Platform Stand
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
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Earth God Gracious People Power Prayer Prosperity
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Deal Destiny Goodness Manifestation
Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Achievement Destiny High Land Literacy Providence
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Advance Business Competition Farm Manufacture Process

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