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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.

William McKinley

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?
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Effort Hard Work Ourselves Path Progress Sacrifice
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Brain Count Freedom Government Head Nation People Rule Supreme Willing
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Country People Policy
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Citizenship Close Destiny Nation Observation Ourselves Wonderful
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 MCKINLEY

Achievement Destiny High Land Literacy Providence
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Doubtful Enough Intelligent Myself Old President
I am for America because America is for the common people.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Common Myself People
The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Home Love Patriot People
Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Country Fortunate Hands Heart Strong
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Best Government Internal Loan Security Tax Way
The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Day Man Money Work
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Example History Hope Inspirational Life Man Time
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Flag Humanity Plant Sake Territory
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Progress Time
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 MCKINLEY

Advance Business Competition Farm Manufacture Process
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Man Platform Stand

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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