War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe 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?
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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 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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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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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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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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?
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