We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYOur 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
More William McKinley Quotes
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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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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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.
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Our past has gone into history.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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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