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Quotes by President
"If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end."
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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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"...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same."
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"Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breath it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn't ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me. Isn't that the meaning of the lost sheep? We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him. I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold."
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
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"She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them."
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"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."
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"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
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"We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong."
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"In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you."
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"You are the most powerful cultural force in the world."
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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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"In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic."
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"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
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"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."
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"I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign."
Will,
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"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."
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"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
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"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."
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"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."
Want,
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"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
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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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"We are the change we have been waiting for."
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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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