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Quotes by President
"Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life."
43
"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."
43
"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government."
43
"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
43
"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
43
"The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience."
43
"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
43
"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
43
"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."
43
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
43
"The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion."
43
"Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles."
43
"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
43
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
43
"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions."
43
"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation."
43
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
43
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
43
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
43
"I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it."
Job,
42
"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough."
42
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
42
"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office."
42
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
42
"When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable."
42
"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
42
"Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far."
42
"The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations."
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