William McKinley Quotes

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

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.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

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

Our past has gone into history.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

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.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.

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.

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 scarifice?

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.

We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.

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 American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go ...

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

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

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

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.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar"
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

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.