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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.
William McKinley
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William McKinley
Age: 58 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 29
Died: 1901
Died: September 14
25Th U.S. President
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Niles
Ohio
W. McKinley
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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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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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
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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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Our past has gone into history.
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The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
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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 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.
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Our differences are policies our agreements, principles.
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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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By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
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I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.
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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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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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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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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 . . .
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Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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