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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYWe go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
More William McKinley Quotes
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Our past has gone into history.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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 people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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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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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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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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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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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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