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  • 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 higher will be our destiny as a nation.

  • 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

    William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.550, tredition
  • 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 McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.543, tredition
  • 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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  • The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

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  • War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

    William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.20, tredition
  • The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

    Men   Long   Ignorant  
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  • The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

    William McKinley's remarks on 1900 US campaign poster of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, July 12, 1900.
  • The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

    William McKinley's letter, December 21, 1898.
  • I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

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  • In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

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  • Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

    William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.290, tredition
  • The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.

    Harry Joseph Sievers, William McKinley (1970). “William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”, Oceana Publications
  • Our past has gone into history.

  • 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.

    William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.549, tredition
  • What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.

  • 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 Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.

    Harry Joseph Sievers, William McKinley (1970). “William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”, Oceana Publications
  • 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 the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

    McKinley's Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation, December 21, 1898.
  • 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.

    William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.19, tredition
  • Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

    William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.291, tredition
  • The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.

  • We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

    William McKinley's remarks to personal secretary George Cortelyou, 1898.
  • We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

  • 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. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.

  • The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

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  • I am for America because America is for the common people.

    McKinley, William (1893). “Speeches and addresses of William McKinley, from his election to Congress to the present time.”, p.194, Best Books on
  • Half-heartedness never won a battle.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.14, tredition
  • The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.

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    William McKinley

    • Born: January 29, 1843
    • Died: September 14, 1901
    • Occupation: 25th U.S. President