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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYStrong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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 people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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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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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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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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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 liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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