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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYStrong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
More William McKinley Quotes
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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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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 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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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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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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 differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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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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