Half-heartedness never won a battle.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYWithout 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.
More William McKinley Quotes
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Our past has gone into history.
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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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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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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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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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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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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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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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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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