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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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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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Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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 am for America because America is for the common people.
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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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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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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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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Our past has gone into history.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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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