War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
More William McKinley Quotes
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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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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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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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 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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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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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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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
WILLIAM MCKINLEY