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 MCKINLEYWe need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
More William McKinley Quotes
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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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 people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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 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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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
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Our past has gone into history.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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