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 MCKINLEYWe cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
More William McKinley Quotes
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Our past has gone into history.
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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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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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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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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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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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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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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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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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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