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

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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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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
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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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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.
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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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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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We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
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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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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
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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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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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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?
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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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