I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYWe need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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 American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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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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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Our past has gone into history.
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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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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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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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Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also.
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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 people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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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.
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