I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYCuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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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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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.
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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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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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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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 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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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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