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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

William McKinley

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Act Mission Oneself
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Deal Destiny Goodness Manifestation
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 MCKINLEY

Advance Business Competition Farm Manufacture Process
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Citizenship Close Destiny Nation Observation Ourselves Wonderful
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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Best Government Internal Loan Security Tax Way
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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Agreement Difference Policy Principle
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
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
Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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Battle One Liner Win
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Conscience Design National Peace War
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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Doubtful Enough Intelligent Myself Old President
The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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Day Man Money Work
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Example History Hope Inspirational Life Man Time
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
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Government Independent People

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