Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYWar should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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 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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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