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William McKinley Quotes about Destiny

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

Book, Destiny, Citizens

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

William McKinley

Fate, Destiny, California

William McKinley's remarks to personal secretary George Cortelyou, 1898.

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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

Destiny, Land, World

William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.19, tredition

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