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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYI 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.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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 American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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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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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 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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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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