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Quotes by President
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."
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"It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training."
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"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
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"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
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"I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town."
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"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."
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"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
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"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
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"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."
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"I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President."
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"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
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"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history."
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
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"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."
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"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."
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"With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate."
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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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"The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men."
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"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
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"The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness."
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"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
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"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned."
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"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
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"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
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