I am for America because America is for the common people.
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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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
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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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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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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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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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