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William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals.
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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.
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
We want no war of conquest…. War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.
Remark to personal secretary George Cortelyou (1898)
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
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.
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.
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.
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…
I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles."
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