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I am for America because America is for the common people.

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.
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Brain Count Freedom Government Head Nation People Rule Supreme Willing
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
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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Blessing Death Faith Heaven Live Mom Myself
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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Effort Hard Work Ourselves Path Progress Sacrifice
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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Interest Peace Remember Victory War
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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Capacity Enjoyment Honesty Industry Public
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Man Platform Stand
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
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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Example History Hope Inspirational Life Man Time
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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Money Sacred
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.
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Best Government Internal Loan Security Tax Way
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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Agreement Difference Policy Principle
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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Conscience Design National Peace War
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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Doubtful Enough Intelligent Myself Old President
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Agent Failure Peace War
Our past has gone into history.
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History One Liner Past

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