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 MCKINLEYHonesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
More William McKinley Quotes
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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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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Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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 free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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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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The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they 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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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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