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William McKinley

William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of free silver (effectively, expansionary monetary policy).

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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. . .

Count, Counted, Free, Government, Law, 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.

Design, Make, Making Peace, War, Wherever

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

Defeat, May, Presidential, Time, Victory

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

America, Country, People, Policy

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

Gamble, Money, Sacred

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

Father, Favored, Long, People, Singularly, Teaches

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

Country, Fortunately, Heart, Hearts, Part, Strong

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.

Book, Citizens, Destiny, Precepts, Wonderful

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

Break, Freedom, Give, Giving, Law, Liberty

Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

Confidence, Liberties, Military, Rights, Winning

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

American, Freedom, Home, Love

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.

Destiny, Enlightened, Land, Nations, World

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.

Antiquated, Business, Competition, Further, Long Ago, Would Be

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

Agency, Entered, Failed, Presidential, War

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.

History, Inspiration, Men, Presidential, Set

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

Assimilation, Mission, Missions, Presidential, United, United States

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?

Effort, Father, Presidential, Scarifice, Smooth

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.

Destruction, Grief, Heart, Home, Inquiry

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

Blessing, Earth, Happiness, Like, Powers, Prayer

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

Expositions, Progress, Timekeepers

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