Half-heartedness never won a battle.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYIlliteracy 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.
More William McKinley Quotes
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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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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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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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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The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Our past has gone into history.
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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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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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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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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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