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 MCKINLEYThe free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
More William McKinley Quotes
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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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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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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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 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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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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 American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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