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Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William McKinley

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
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
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Money Sacred
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Interest Peace Remember Victory War
I am for America because America is for the common people.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Common Myself People
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
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Blessing Death Faith Heaven Live Mom Myself
The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Break Freedom Law Liberty Ourselves
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Deal Destiny Goodness Manifestation
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Act Mission Oneself
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
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Cheap Country Inspirational Man Signal Word
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Conscience Design National Peace War
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
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Army Country Dangerous Peace Purpose Security Togetherness
The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Day Man Money Work

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

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