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 MCKINLEYThe American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
More William McKinley Quotes
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Our past has gone into history.
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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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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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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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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The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
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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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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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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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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