William McKinley Quotes

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

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

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

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

Our past has gone into history.

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

The freeman cannot belong to an ignorant man.

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

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

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.