Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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 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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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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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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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 people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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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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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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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
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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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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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