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Quotes by President
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
62
"I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors."
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62
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
61
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."
61
"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
59
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
59
"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
57
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
56
"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
56
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
53
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
51
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
50
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
50
"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
50
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
50
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
50
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
49
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
49
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
49
"Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you."
49
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
49
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
48
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
48
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
48
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
47
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
47
"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."
47
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
47
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
47
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
46
"The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition."
46
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