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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

William McKinley

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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Brain Count Freedom Government Head Nation People Rule Supreme Willing
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
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 MCKINLEY

Achievement Destiny High Land Literacy Providence
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Country People Policy
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Doubtful Enough Intelligent Myself Old President
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
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Act Mission Oneself
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Man Platform Stand
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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Freedom Government Independent People
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Money Sacred
The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Home Love Patriot People
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 liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Break Freedom Law Liberty Ourselves
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
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Command Faith Father God Himself Humble Teaching Walk
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Ignorance Man
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Agent Failure Peace War

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

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