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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

William McKinley

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Government Independent People
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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Agreement Difference Policy Principle
Our past has gone into history.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

History One Liner Past
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 MCKINLEY

Cheap Country Inspirational Man Signal Word
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Man Platform Stand
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Deal Destiny Goodness Manifestation
Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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Battle One Liner Win
The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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Break Freedom Law Liberty Ourselves
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Interest Peace Remember Victory War
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Citizenship Close Destiny Nation Observation Ourselves Wonderful
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Agent Failure Peace War
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Advance Business Competition Farm Manufacture Process
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
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Command Faith Father God Himself Humble Teaching Walk
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Act Mission Oneself
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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Flag Humanity Plant Sake Territory
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Achievement Destiny High Land Literacy Providence

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