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Quotes by President
"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."
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"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
39
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."
39
"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
39
"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"
39
"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."
39
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
39
"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."
39
"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."
39
"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood."
39
"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large."
38
"I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country."
38
"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."
38
"If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none."
38
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
38
"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
38
"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
38
"He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor."
38
"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
38
"I am in support of the NRA position on gun control."
38
"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals."
38
"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
38
"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president."
38
"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands."
38
"On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success."
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