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 MCKINLEYThe 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 MCKINLEYUnlike 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 MCKINLEYWithout 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 MCKINLEYThe people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYWar should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYOur past has gone into history.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYStrong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYExpositions are the timekeepers of progress.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe 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 MCKINLEYLet 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 MCKINLEYWe cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYHalf-heartedness never won a battle.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThat’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