The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.
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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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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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 mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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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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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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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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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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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 past has gone into history.
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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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The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.
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