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 MCKINLEYI have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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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Our past has gone into history.
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The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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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 mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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