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Quotes by President
"I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat."
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"Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth."
47
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
47
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
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"France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties."
47
"In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them."
47
"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
47
"Another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done."
47
"They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth."
47
"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
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"The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us..."
47
"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
46
"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
46
"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."
46
"I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution."
46
"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."
46
"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace."
46
"All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
46
"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."
46
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
46
"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war."
46
"In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large."
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"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
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"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
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"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
46
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
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"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes."
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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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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
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"For of those to whom much is given, much is required."
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"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
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"Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?"
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