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All Quotes Collection
"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
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"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."
43
"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."
40
"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
79
"Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index."
45
"It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast."
39
"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
37
"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men."
36
"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."
45
"Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man."
32
"Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!"
40
"True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance."
34
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."
54
"Loneliness is the ultimate poverty."
43
"It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad."
36
"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
35
"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
42
"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
69
"It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister."
49
"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am""
40
"Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe."
61
"The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi."
47
"The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits."
40
"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session."
43
"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
43
"With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate."
41
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
38
"The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies."
47
"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
69
"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."
34
"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large."
43
"The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations."
50
"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success."
42
"Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches."
53
"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."
53
"In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large."
55
"It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi."
38
"It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment."
40
"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."
52
"Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it."
49
"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."
46
"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
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