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Quotes by President
"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."
579
"One man with courage makes a majority."
357
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
234
"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."
213
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
187
"It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country."
177
"I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'."
176
"May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace."
175
"At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point."
170
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
170
"In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost."
169
"None of the parties want this conflict to go on."
169
"The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period."
166
"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."
165
"I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency."
163
"No doubt it was better to have become president than not."
161
"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."
160
"We are a people who can bring about miracles if united."
159
"To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom."
158
"Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated."
157
"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
155
"Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health."
154
"I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world."
154
"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
151
"Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers."
148
"I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors."
Will,
147
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
141
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
128
"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
127
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
116
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""
113
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
113
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
111
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
103
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
103
"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
101
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
101
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