William McKinley

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.

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

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

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.

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