The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe 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.
More William McKinley Quotes
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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 am for America because America is for the common people.
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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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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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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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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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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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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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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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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