1898 William McKinley
Let us resolve by our laws and by our administration of them to maintain the rights of the citizen, to cement the Union by still closer bonds, to exalt the standards of American civilization, encourage the promotion of trift and industry and economy and the homely virtues which have ennobled our people, uphold the stability of our currency and credit and unstained honor of the government, and illustrate the purity of our national and municipal government; and then, though the rain descends and the floods come and the winds blow, the Nation will stand, for it is founded upon a rock.
