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Quotes by President
"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman."
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"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government."
15
"The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted."
15
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
15
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
15
"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
15
"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."
15
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
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"In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything."
15
"It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail."
15
"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."
15
"Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will."
15
"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."
15
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
15
"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
15
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
15
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
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"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
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"Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past."
15
"I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest."
15
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
15
"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."
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"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
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"We are not the sum of our possessions."
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"I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve."
15
"The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking."
15
"Another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done."
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"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."
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