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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.

William McKinley

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Capacity Enjoyment Honesty Industry Public
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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Act Mission Oneself
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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Command Faith Father God Himself Humble Teaching Walk
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Darkness Hope Inspirational Near Time Victory
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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Progress Time
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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Advance Business Competition Farm Manufacture Process
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Agent Failure Peace War
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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Achievement Destiny High Land Literacy Providence
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Man Platform Stand
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
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Country People Policy
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
I am for America because America is for the common people.
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Common Myself People
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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Money Sacred
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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Citizenship Close Destiny Nation Observation Ourselves Wonderful
The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

Day Man Money Work

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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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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