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?
WILLIAM MCKINLEYThe 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.
More William McKinley Quotes
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .
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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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 am for America because America is for the common people.
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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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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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