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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William McKinley

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Country People Policy
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?
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Effort Hard Work Ourselves Path Progress Sacrifice
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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Freedom Ignorance Man
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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Freedom Government Independent People
I am for America because America is for the common people.
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Common Myself People
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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Brain Count Freedom Government Head Nation People Rule Supreme Willing
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Progress Time
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 MCKINLEY

Example History Hope Inspirational Life Man Time
The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Freedom Home Love Patriot People
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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Interest Peace Remember Victory War
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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Money Sacred
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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Capacity Enjoyment Honesty Industry Public
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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Cheap Country Inspirational Man Signal Word
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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Conscience Design National Peace War
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Man Platform Stand

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