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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYIn the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
More William McKinley Quotes
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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 differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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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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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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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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