41 Top William McKinley Quotes That Still Hold Relevance
William McKinley was the 25th President of America and the last one to have served in the ‘American Civil War’. Before the war he worked as a school teacher and once the war ended he decided to study law. He got himself enrolled in ‘Albany Law School’ in New York. Eventually he stepped into politics and got elected to the Congress. He held the office of ‘Ohio’s Governor’ and aimed at country’s presidency. Here is a collection of insightful thoughts and quotes by William McKinley on country, destiny, liberty, war, freedom, slavery, humanity, inspiration, law, government, people, citizens, money, America and much more.
![The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/william-mckinley-57877.jpg)
The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.
The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
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.
We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.
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.
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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 . . .
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.
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
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?
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.
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.
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
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.
The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.
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.
Our past has gone into history.
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
Half-heartedness never won a battle.
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
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.
