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Quotes by President
"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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"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."
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"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."
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"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
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"I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property."
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"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
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"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."
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"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity."
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"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none."
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"We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to remember. What else is there to guide us? Those values are our inheritance, what makes us who we are as a people. And although we recognize that they are subject to challenge, can be poked and prodded and debunked and turned inside out bu intellectuals and cultural critics, they have proven to be both surprisingly durable and surprisingly constant across classes, and races, and faiths, and generations. We can make claims on their behalf, so long as we understand that our values must be tested against fact and experience, so long as we recall that they demand deeds and not just words."
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"Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you."
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"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
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"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
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"The reward of suffering is experience."
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"Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength."
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"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back."
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
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"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign."
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"Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done."
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"Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?"
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"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
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"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
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"Party honesty is party expediency."
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"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."
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"In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
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"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
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