We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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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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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Our past has gone into history.
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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 free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.
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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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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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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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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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