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Quotes by President
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
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"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
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"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough."
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"I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio."
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"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."
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"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."
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"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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"In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'"
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"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."
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"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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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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"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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"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
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"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters."
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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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"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
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"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."
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"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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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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"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
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"The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?...Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union."
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
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"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
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"No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure."
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"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong."
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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."
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