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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

William McKinley

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
Our past has gone into history.
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History One Liner Past
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 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
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
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
I am for America because America is for the common people.
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Common Myself People
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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Freedom Ignorance Man
Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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Battle One Liner Win
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 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
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
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
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.
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Brain Count Freedom Government Head Nation People Rule Supreme Willing
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Man Platform Stand
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Progress Time
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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Money Sacred
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
Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
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Country Fortunate Hands Heart Strong
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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Capacity Enjoyment Honesty Industry Public
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
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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Country People Policy
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Act Mission Oneself
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Agent Failure 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

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