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Quotes by President
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
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"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them."
5
"With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system."
5
"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."
5
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
5
"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."
5
"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."
5
"They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth."
5
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
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"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
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"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
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"The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi."
5
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
4
"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough."
4
"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
4
"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard."
4
"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
4
"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
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"I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country."
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"I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct)."
4
"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become."
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