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Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William McKinley

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
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
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
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
Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
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Command Faith Father God Himself Humble Teaching Walk
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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Agreement Difference Policy Principle
Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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Battle One Liner Win
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Progress Time
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
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
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Agent Failure Peace War
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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Money Sacred
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
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
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Doubtful Enough Intelligent Myself Old President
The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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Day Man Money Work
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
I am for America because America is for the common people.
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Common Myself People
Our past has gone into history.
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History One Liner Past
The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.
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Component Discipline Life Popular Style System Technique
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
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.
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Achievement Destiny High Land Literacy Providence
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Act Mission Oneself
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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Deal Destiny Goodness Manifestation
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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Capacity Enjoyment Honesty Industry Public
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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Country People Policy
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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Example History Hope Inspirational Life Man Time

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