In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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 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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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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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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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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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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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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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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