The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYIn the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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 Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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 liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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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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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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Our past has gone into history.
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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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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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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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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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