William McKinley Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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 people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

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

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.

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

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

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

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

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.

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.

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

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 free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

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

Our past has gone into history.

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

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.