The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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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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The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.
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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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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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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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That’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.
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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 free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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