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Quotes by President
"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
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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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"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
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"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
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"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."
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"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible."
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"My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."
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"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
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"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
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"We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again."
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"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement."
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"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
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"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
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"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."
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"Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations."
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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
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"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
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"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."
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"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."
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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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