Quotes About McKinley

To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment.

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.

I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state. This is the tallest mountain in North America, and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name.

I said: He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much. But he is a Beast, said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, Cannot a Beast be tamed?

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.

I knew you'd figure it out, he said. And I hoped that by the time you figured it out, you would be sufficiently accustomed to the situation for the realization to be less... dispiriting.

screen that was longing to give me a lightning-bolt-thunder-roll odin-bloody headache

Jesse reached into a bottom drawer and brought out a bottle of... oh, hey, single-malt scotch. Some SOFs did know how to live.

The tone of her voice said that she felt she was offering me silk thread to build a bridge across a ravine.

So long as McKinley was in the White House, Rockefeller had implicit faith that his business interests would be safeguarded.

George Marshall, Senior, was a locally prominent Democrat, a Bryan man still, despite President McKinley's election, not one to give or expect a dollop of non-partisan patronage.

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

Hazel McKinley, savvy as always, did take the time to advise the restaurant manager to cut out and frame that piece of vomit-splattered carpet, as it was likely to be worth millions someday.

He said, "McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man.

Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.

So the next time they mention Bush, your reply should be, "WILLIAM MCKINLEY." Bush has nothing to do with anything.

McKinley could not believe that Aguinaldo's insurgents would be so stupid as to resist the power and benevolence of the United States.

McKinley was known above all for his inscrutability. He gave almost all the people he met the impression that he agreed with them, and rarely allowed even his closest advisers to know what he was thinking.

William McKinley (R, 1897-1901): president during the Spanish-American War that saw the United States acquire Cuba and the Philippines.

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"