Top 15 William McKinley Quotes

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 mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

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.

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles."

#that 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, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died.

#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

#that we could not turn them over to France and Germany-our commercial rivals in the Orient — that would be bad business and discreditable

#That we could not give them back to Spain — that would be cowardly and dishonorable;

When I next realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps I confess I did not know what to do with them … And one night late it came to me this way…:

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.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

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 earth.

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.