I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYIn the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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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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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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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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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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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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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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The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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