William McKinley Zitate

William McKinley, Jr. war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Republikanischen Partei und der 25. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten. Er übte dieses Amt vom 4. März 1897 bis zum 14. September 1901 aus, als er an den Folgen eines acht Tage zuvor auf ihn verübten Attentats starb. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Januar 1843 – 14. September 1901
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“I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.”

McKinley's supposed reaction to the capture of Manila, as quoted in Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0803893477&id=soIn15_8_BEC&pg=PA360&lpg=PA362&dq=isaac+asimov&as_brr=1&sig=N7a-MSVa9fFYuZBxJbosM31-Y7M, pages 360-361.
Attributed

“that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died.”

Attributed by James F. Rusling "Interview with President McKinley" The Christian Advocate (22 January 1903), as remarks from a meeting with clergymen on 21 November 1899. The overtly religious part is disputed in Lewis Gould (1980) The Presidency of William McKinley.

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

First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897).
1890s

“Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.”

Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
1900s

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

Quoted from July 12, 1900, on 1900 US campaign poster, of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt.
1900s

“The ocean is not wide enough to hold all the sympathy that is streaming from the Old World to the New.”

Austrian response to McKinley's death by Vienna newspaper Neues Wiener Tageblatt. The Authentic Life of President McKinley, page 397.

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