William McKinley Quotes

After Being Shot

"My wife, be careful, Cortelyou, how you tell her -- oh, be careful." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Assimilation

"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Business Life

"Business life, whether among ourselves or with other people, is even a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. 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 Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Cheap

"I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Cuba

"Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Debt

"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 Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/WM/WM_In_His_Own_Words.htm

Differences

"Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Expositions

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. William McKinley Source:http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quautmckinleywilliamx001.htm

Free

"The free man cannot be long an ignorant man." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Good Bye

"Good-bye -- good bye, all. It is God's way. His will, not ours, be done. Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Hope

"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." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Illiteracy

"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 Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/WM/WM_In_His_Own_Words.htm

Maine

"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." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Manifest Destiny

"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Peace

"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 Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Philippines

"If Old Dewey had just sailed away when he smashed the Spanish fleet, what a lot of trouble he would have saved us." (On taking possession of the Philippines) William McKinley Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/WM/WM_In_His_Own_Words.htm

Prayer

"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 Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

President

"I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Spanish - American War

"We could not leave them 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 to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them." William McKinley Source: 1899, on the Filipinos, following the U.S. invasion of the Philippines in 1898. During the invasion and occupation, U.S. forces killed an estimated 200,000 Filipino civilians. Address to the Methodist Episcopal Church; cited in Olcott, The Life of William McKinley (1916), v. 2, p. 110; estimate of civilian casualties from U.S. Library of Congress, "The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War," 1998.

Tariff

"I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform." William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Trouble Times

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

War

"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed" William McKinley Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/

Will of the People

"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. And the general sense of 63 millions of free people is better and safer than the sense of an favored few, born to nobility and ruling by inheritance." William McKinley 1891 Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/WM/WM_In_His_Own_Words.htm US President's Web Ring Home Page Presidential Trivia Howie's Great Democratic Quote Page Howie's Stupid GOP Quote Page MidnightFlyer's Homepage Great Democratic Speeches Mail James Howington
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