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"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."
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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."
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"I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me."


"I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town."


"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."


"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."


"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."


"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become."


"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."


"Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law."
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