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Quotes by President
"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
10
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
10
"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."
10
"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."
10
"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
10
"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."
10
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
10
"The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much."
10
"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true."
10
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
10
"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."
10
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
10
"In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."
10
"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
10
"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."
10
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
10
"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
10
"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us."
10
"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."
10
"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
10
"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."
10
"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
10
"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
10
"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword."
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