William McKinley

About William McKinley

“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.”
— First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897)
“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.”
— First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897).
“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.”
— Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
“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.”
— Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
“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.”
— Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
“I am a tariff man standing on a tariff platform.”
— Widely attributed to McKinley and quoted by Donald Trump, as quoted in "Origins of the Tariff Men", Poilitico (2018)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.