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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYBy the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
More William McKinley Quotes
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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Our past has gone into history.
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
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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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The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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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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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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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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