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Quotes by President
"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."
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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
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"A man without a vote is man without protection."
21
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."
21
"I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
Vote,
20
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
20
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
18
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
18
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
17
"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."
17
"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."
17
"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."
17
"Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
17
"Never spend your money before you have earned it."
16
"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
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"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
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"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny."
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"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
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"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
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"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
15
"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
15
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
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"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
14
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
14
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
14
"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."
14
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
14
"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."
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"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
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