"My wife, be careful, Cortelyou, how you tell her --
oh, be careful."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Assimilation
"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent
assimilation."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Business Life
"Business life, whether among ourselves or with other
people, is even a sharp struggle for success. It will
be none the less so in the future. 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."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Cheap
"I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of
honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for
cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap
men make for a cheap country."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Cuba
"Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government
should be turned over to the Cuban people."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Debt
"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 McKinley
Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/WM/WM_In_His_Own_Words.htm
Differences
"Our differences are politics. Our agreements
are principles."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Expositions
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
William McKinley
Source:http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quautmckinleywilliamx001.htm
Free
"The free man cannot be long an ignorant man."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Good Bye
"Good-bye -- good bye, all. It is God's way. His will,
not ours, be done. Nearer my God to Thee,
nearer to Thee."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Hope
"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."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Illiteracy
"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."
William McKinley
Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/WM/WM_In_His_Own_Words.htm
Maine
"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."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Manifest Destiny
"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than
we did California. It is Manifest Destiny."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Peace
"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."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Philippines
"If Old Dewey had just sailed away when he smashed the Spanish fleet,
what a lot of trouble he would have saved us."
(On taking possession of the Philippines)
William McKinley
Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/WM/WM_In_His_Own_Words.htm
Prayer
"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"
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
President
"I have never been in doubt since I was old enough
to think intelligently that I would someday be
made president.."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Spanish - American War
"We could not leave them 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 to take them all, and to educate the
Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them."
William McKinley
Source: 1899, on the Filipinos, following the U.S. invasion of
the Philippines in 1898. During the invasion and occupation,
U.S. forces killed an estimated 200,000 Filipino civilians.
Address to the Methodist Episcopal Church; cited in Olcott,
The Life of William McKinley (1916), v. 2, p. 110; estimate
of civilian casualties from U.S. Library of Congress, "The
World of 1898: The Spanish-American War," 1998.
Tariff
"I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform."
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
Trouble Times
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
War
"War should never be entered upon until every agency of
peace has failed"
William McKinley
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/william_mckinley/
