"Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country."

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"Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

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"One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world."

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well."

Success

"Whatever you tax, you get less of."

Tax

"History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums."

History

"I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive."

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"Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here."

Money

"Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs."

Economy

"I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about."

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"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable."

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"We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real."

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"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."

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