William McKinley Quotes

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• The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
• That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
• I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
• I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of…
• The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
• 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…
• Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
• Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of…
• 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…
• The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
• We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
• I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way.…
• 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…

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