I Went Down On My Knees And Prayed To Almighty God For Light And Guidance And One Night Late It Came To Me This Way. We Could Not Leave (the Philippines) To Themselves-they Were Unfit For Self-government-and They Would Soon Have Anarchy And Misrule Over There Worse Than Spain's Was. There Was Nothing Left For Us To Do But Take Them All And Educate The Filipinos, And Uplift And Christianize Them.

-William McKinley

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I Went Down On My Knees And

William McKinley

I Went Down On My Knees And Prayed To Almighty God For Light And Guidance And One Night Late It Came To Me This Way. We Could Not Leave (the Philippines) To Themselves-they Were Unfit For Self-government-and They Would Soon Have Anarchy And Misrule Over There Worse Than Spain's Was. There Was Nothing Left For Us To Do But Take Them All And Educate The Filipinos, And Uplift And Christianize Them.

Topic

Uplifting

Night

Light

The Path Of Progress Is Seldom Smooth. New Things Are Often Found Hard To Do. Our Fathers Found Them So. We Find Them So. But Are We Not Made Better For The Effort And Scarifice?

Father

Effort

Presidential