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 MCKINLEYThe 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?
More William McKinley Quotes
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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 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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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 American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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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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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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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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