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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThat’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.
More William McKinley Quotes
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
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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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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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Our past has gone into history.
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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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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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