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Quotes by President
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
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"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
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"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."
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"You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes."
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"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."
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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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"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
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"Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)"
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"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America."
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"I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things."
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"With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system."
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"The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers. Of course there is no reason for choosing the cube as a symbol, except that it is probably less fitted than any other mathematical expression for any but the most formal decorative art. There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, or Knights of the Isosceles Triangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another."
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"In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
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"The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction."
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"My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together."
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"Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience."
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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
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"We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war."
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"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
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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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"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
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"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world."
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"'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."
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"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
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"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."
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"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
Will,
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"President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves."
Fact,
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"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."
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