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"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source."

"We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one."

"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."

"Any intervention, such as that of the German Reichsbank in the Spring of 1923, in which only a small part of the increasing note-expansion was recovered by the banks through the sale of foreign bills, would necessarily be unsuccessful. Led by the idea of opposing speculation, inflationistic governments have allowed themselves to become involved in measures whose meaning is hardly intelligible. Thus at one time the importation of notes, then their exportation, then again both their exportation and importation, have been prohibited. Exporters have been forbidden to sell for their own country's notes, importers to buy with them."

"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."

"For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts."

"Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil."

"Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently."

"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."

"On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do."
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"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."

"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit."

"Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes."

"Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will."

"For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism."

"The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession."

"Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found."

"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."
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