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Top 30 William McKinley Quotes (2025 Update)

William McKinley Quote: “In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.”

1. “In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “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?”

2. “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?”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “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.”

3. “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

William McKinley Quote: “I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.”

4. “I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”

5. “The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “Our past has gone into history.”

6. “Our past has gone into history.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “Half-heartedness never won a battle.”

7. “Half-heartedness never won a battle.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.”

8. “The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.”

9. “We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.”

10. “I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.”

11. “The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “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.”

12. “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

William McKinley Quote: “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.”

13. “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

William McKinley Quote: “The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.”

14. “The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!”

15. “The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.”

16. “War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.”

17. “Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “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.”

18. “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

William McKinley Quote: “We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.”

19. “We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.”

20. “Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.”

21. “I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.”

22. “By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”

23. “The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.”

24. “Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.”

25. “We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps.”

26. “Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.”

27. “Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go...”

28. “The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go...”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “I am for America because America is for the common people.”

29. “I am for America because America is for the common people.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.”

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

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.”

31. “Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.”

— William McKinley

William McKinley Quote: “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.”

32. “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

William McKinley Quote: “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.”

33. “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

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