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“[Sul dominio statunitense nelle Filippine] Non so come fu, ma avvenne: 1) che non potevamo restituirle alla Spagna: sarebbe stato vile e disonorevole; 2) che non potevamo cederle alla Francia o alla Germania – nostre concorrenti commerciali in Oriente –: sarebbe stato un cattivo affare e indegno; 3) che non potevamo abbandonarle a se stesse: non erano in grado di autogovernarsi, e ben presto vi sarebbe stata l'anarchia e il malgoverno, peggio di quelli della Spagna; 4) che non ci rimaneva niente altro da fare che prenderle in blocco, educare i filippini, ed elevarli e civilizzarli e cristianizzarli, e con la grazia di Dio farne il meglio che si poteva, considerandoli nostri fratelli in quanto Cristo mori anche per loro. E poi andai a letto, e mi addormentai e dormii sodo.”

William McKinley

citato in Chomsky 2003, p. 292

William McKinley: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.”

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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. <br class="br">Attributed

“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."”

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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.

“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.”

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

“that we not leave them to themselves — they are unfit for self-government — and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's wars; and”

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