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Quotes by President
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
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"The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation."
39
"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."
39
"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known."
39
"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."
39
"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."
39
"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."
39
"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
39
"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
39
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
39
"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
39
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
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"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another."
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"The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may."
39
"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."
39
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
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"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."
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"The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in."
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"I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."
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"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
39
"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men."
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"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
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"Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law."
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"With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
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