William McKinley actually said...

No time could be more appropriate than the present to approach in a fitting spirit those sacred themes of the love of country and the rights of man.

Letter to the Gettysburg Committee on Memorial Day Exercises

05/19/1898

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It is the constitutional method of ascertaining the public will.

Sectionalism has disappeared.

Existing problems demand the thought and quicken the conscience of the country.

May it end without further bloodshed, and there be ushered in the reign of peace to be made permanent by a government of liberty under law!