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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.

William McKinley

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 mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Act Mission Oneself
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
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
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
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Progress Time
Our past has gone into history.
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History One Liner Past
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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Agreement Difference Policy Principle
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
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Government Independent People
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
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
Half-heartedness never won a battle.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Battle One Liner Win
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 for America because America is for the common people.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Common Myself People

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