In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
More William McKinley Quotes
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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 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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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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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 past has gone into history.
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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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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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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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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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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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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