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"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
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"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."
"Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind."
"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss."
"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."
"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
"For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship."
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."
"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."
"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."
"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."
"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady."
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
"If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished."
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