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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYExpositions are the timekeepers of progress.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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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 American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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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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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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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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