The 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, was born on January 29, 1843, and he presided over the country from 1897 - 1901.In order to support American industry, William McKinley raised protective tariffs during the Spanish-American War of 1898. He also opposed the expansionary monetary policy of free silver, keeping the country on the gold standard.The last president to have participated in the American Civil War was Republican William McKinley. He was the only one to start as an enlistee and finish as a brevet major. According to historians, McKinley’s victory in 1896 was a realigning election in which the Republican-dominated Fourth Party System, which began with the Progressive Era, replaced the post-Civil War political impasse.Int William McKinley QuotesThousands of soldiers in Ohio volunteered for service when the Southern states left the Union and the American Civil War started. William McKinley and his cousin William McKinley Osbourne were two of them. They joined the newly organized Poland Guards in June 1861 as privates.“Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.““War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.““By the blessings of heaven, I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.““Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.““The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!““The American people, entrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.““I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.““Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.““The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component. ““Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbours, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth.““I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government and would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos and uplift and Christianize them.“William McKinley Quotes About AmericaWilliam McKinley assembled a special session of Congress shortly after entering office to increase customs duties in the hopes that doing so would lower other taxes, boost domestic industry, and create jobs for Americans.“Our past has gone into history.““The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.““I am for America because America is for the common people.““The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.““Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.““The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.““We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.““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.““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.““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.““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.““Finally, it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.““Well, they say, buy where you can buy the cheapest… Of course, that applies to labor as to everything else. Let me give you a maxim that is a thousand times better than that, and it is the protection maxim: Buy where you can pay the easiest. And that spot of earth is where labor wins its highest rewards.““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.“Inspirational William McKinley QuotesThe legacy of William McKinley’s presidency would be determined by foreign policy, starting with a battle that was still going on in Cuba where Spanish soldiers were seeking to suppress a revolutionary movement. Even though the bloodshed horrified the American press and people, McKinley intended to avoid intervention and pressured Spain to make concessions.“The free man cannot be an ignorant man.““In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.““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.““We cannot always do what is best but we can do what is practical at the time.““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 sacrifice?““Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favoured 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.“Thought-Provoking William McKinley QuotesThe Pan American Exposition is best known for the September 6, 1901, assassination of US president William McKinley by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Temple of Music. On September 14, eight days later, the president passed away from gangrene brought on by his wounds.“Half-heartedness never won a battle.““Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.““We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.““The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!““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.““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.““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.”
The 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, was born on January 29, 1843, and he presided over the country from 1897 - 1901.