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?
William McKinleyThe American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
William McKinleyI 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.
William McKinleyThe liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
William McKinleyWe go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
William McKinleyI went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) 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 take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.
William McKinley