William McKinley Quotes
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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
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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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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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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 every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
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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.
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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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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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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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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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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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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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The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar"
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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I am for America because America is for the common people.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.