William McKinley: Quotes about the world

William McKinley was American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901). Explore interesting quotes on world.

William McKinley: 44 quotes1 like

“Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave. Protection is but the law of nature, the law of self-preservation, of self-development, of securing the highest and best destiny of the race of man. [It is said] that protection is immoral…. Why, if protection builds up and elevates 63,000,000 [the U. S. population] of people, the influence of those 63,000,000 of people elevates the rest of the world. We cannot take a step in the pathway of progress without benefiting mankind everywhere. 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."”

William McKinley

And that spot of earth is where labor wins its highest rewards.
Speech in Boston, MA (Oct. 4, 1892) William McKinley Papers, Library of Congress.

“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

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

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

William McKinley

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