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Quotes by President
"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."
35
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
34
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
34
"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."
34
"I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors."
Will,
34
"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."
34
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
34
"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
34
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
33
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
33
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
32
"I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency."
32
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
31
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
30
"A man without a vote is man without protection."
30
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
29
"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us."
29
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
28
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
28
"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."
28
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
27
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
27
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
27
"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."
26
"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."
26
"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."
26
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
26
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
25
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."
25
"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
24
"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."
24
"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."
24
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
24
"I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all."
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