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Quotes by President
"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."
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"I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president."
45
"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."
45
"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks."
45
"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."
45
"I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor."
44
"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."
44
"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
Man,
44
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
44
"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."
44
"When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities."
44
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"
44
"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
44
"The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness."
44
"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."
44
"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."
44
"We never repent of having eaten too little."
44
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
44
"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
44
"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."
44
"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
44
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
44
"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
44
"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."
44
"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."
44
"But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues."
44
"Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit."
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