The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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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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The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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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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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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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.
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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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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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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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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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