The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.
William McKinleyIlliteracy 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.
William McKinleyThe American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
William McKinleyThe American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.
William McKinley