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 MCKINLEYThat’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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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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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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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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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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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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Our past has gone into history.
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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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Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth
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