William McKinley quotes - page 2

Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave. Protection is but the law of nature, the law of self-preservation, of self-development, of securing the highest and best destiny of the race of man. [It is said] that protection is immoral.... Why, if protection builds up and elevates 63,000,000 [the U. S. population] of people, the influence of those 63,000,000 of people elevates the rest of the world. We cannot take a step in the pathway of progress without benefiting mankind everywhere. Well, they say, "Buy where you can buy the cheapest".... Of course, that applies to labor as to everything else. Let me give you a maxim that is a thousand times better than that, and it is the protection maxim: "Buy where you can pay the easiest." (William McKinley)
that we not leave them to themselves - they are unfit for self-government - and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's wars; and. View quote
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That we could not give them back to Spain - that would be cowardly and dishonorable. View quote
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that we could not turn them over to France and Germany-our commercial rivals in the Orient - that would be bad business and discreditable. View quote
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform. View quote
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The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws! View quote
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Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country. View quote
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Half-heartedness never won a battle. View quote
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I am for America because America is for the common people. View quote
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The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans. View quote
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment. (William McKinley)
All our people loved their dead President. His kindly nature and lovable traits of character, and his amiable consideration for all about him will long live in the minds and hearts of his countrymen. He loved them in return with such patriotism and unselfishness that in this hour of their grief and humiliation he would say to them: 'It is God's will; I am content. If there is a lesson in my life of death, let it be taught to those who still live, and leave the destiny of their country in their keeping.' Let us, then, as our dead is buried out of our sight, seek for the lessons and the admonitions that may be suggested by the life and death which constitutes our theme. View quote
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Through the two months between the blowing up of the Maine and the declaration of war I vacillated between hope that the President would succeed in preventing a war and fear that the savage cries coming from the Hill would be too much for him, as they were in the end. I honestly believed then as I do now that he was doing his best, and this in spite of the fact that my heart was hot with resentment for what I considered his cowardly desertion of my Poland friends in 1893. McKinley was patient, collected, surprisingly determined. View quote
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