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.
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
More William McKinley Quotes
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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 cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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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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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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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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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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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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