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Quotes by President
"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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"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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"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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"When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities."
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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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"When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable."
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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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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
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"Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it."
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
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"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."
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"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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"So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations."
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"A government is for the benefit of all the people."
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"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
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"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."
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"The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good."
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"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment."
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"I am in support of the NRA position on gun control."
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"In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."
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"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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"I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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