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Quotes by President
"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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"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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"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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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
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"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
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"In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average."
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"No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win."
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"Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good."
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"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
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"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."
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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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"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
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"In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end."
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"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes."
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"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
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"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."
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"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
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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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"Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."
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"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
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"A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
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"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true."
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