In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe 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.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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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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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Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
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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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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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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Our past has gone into history.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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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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