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Quotes by President
"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."
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"But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues."
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
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"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."
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"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
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"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."
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"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
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"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results."
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"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
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"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."
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"Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me."
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"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
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"Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience."
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"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."
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"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
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"I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it."
Job,
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
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"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
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"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
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"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
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"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
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"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."
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"All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable."
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"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
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"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
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"I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life."
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