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 MCKINLEYIn the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
More William McKinley Quotes
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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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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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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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 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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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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