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Quotes by President
"As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here."
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"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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"We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
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"Life is one grand sweet song so start the music."
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"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
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"The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction."
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"Believe you can, and you're halfway there."
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"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
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"You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done."
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"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
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"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
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"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."
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"He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor."
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"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
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"In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
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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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"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."
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"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
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"In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."
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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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"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."
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"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
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"Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!"
God,
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
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"Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive."
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"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
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