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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

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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Break Freedom Law Liberty Ourselves
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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Country People Policy
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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Capacity Enjoyment Honesty Industry Public
Our past has gone into history.
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History One Liner Past
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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Earth God Gracious People Power Prayer Prosperity
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Agent Failure Peace War
Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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Battle One Liner Win
The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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Day Man Money Work
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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Advance Business Competition Farm Manufacture Process
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Progress Time
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
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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Freedom Government Independent People
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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Citizenship Close Destiny Nation Observation Ourselves Wonderful
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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Blessing Death Faith Heaven Live Mom Myself
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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Best Government Internal Loan Security Tax Way
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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Interest Peace Remember Victory War
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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Army Country Dangerous Peace Purpose Security Togetherness
The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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Freedom Home Love Patriot People
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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Freedom Ignorance Man
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Act Mission Oneself
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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Effort Hard Work Ourselves Path Progress Sacrifice
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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Conscience Design National Peace War
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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Flag Humanity Plant Sake Territory
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Man Platform Stand
I am for America because America is for the common people.
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Common Myself People
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

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