Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYWithout 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.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Our past has gone into history.
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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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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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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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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 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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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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