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Quotes by President
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
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"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
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"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative."
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"I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."
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"In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
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"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
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"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."
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"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."
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"An American tragedy in which we all have played a part."
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
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"In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'"
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"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."
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"All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary."
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"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
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"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."
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"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."
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"I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over."
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"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
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"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
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"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
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"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."
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"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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