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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

William McKinley

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Brain Count Freedom Government Head Nation People Rule Supreme Willing
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?
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Effort Hard Work Ourselves Path Progress Sacrifice
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Money Sacred
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Country People Policy
I am for America because America is for the common people.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Common Myself People
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 free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Ignorance Man
The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Day Man Money Work
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Example History Hope Inspirational Life Man Time
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Best Government Internal Loan Security Tax Way
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 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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Army Country Dangerous Peace Purpose Security Togetherness
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Progress Time
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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Capacity Enjoyment Honesty Industry Public
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Doubtful Enough Intelligent Myself Old President
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

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