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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

William McKinley

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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Flag Humanity Plant Sake Territory
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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Effort Hard Work Ourselves Path Progress Sacrifice
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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Blessing Death Faith Heaven Live Mom Myself
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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Cheap Country Inspirational Man Signal Word
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Agent Failure Peace War
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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Command Faith Father God Himself Humble Teaching Walk
Our past has gone into history.
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History One Liner Past
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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Achievement Destiny High Land Literacy Providence
The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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Break Freedom Law Liberty Ourselves
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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Advance Business Competition Farm Manufacture Process
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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Brain Count Freedom Government Head Nation People Rule Supreme Willing
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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Example History Hope Inspirational Life Man Time
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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Agreement Difference Policy Principle
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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Deal Destiny Goodness Manifestation
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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Conscience Design National Peace War

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