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Quotes by President
"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
38
"The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves."
38
"You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character."
38
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
38
"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
38
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
38
"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
38
"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."
38
"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
38
"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
38
"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."
38
"I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest."
38
"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind."
38
"Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools."
38
"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."
38
"We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure."
38
"There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect."
37
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
37
"As friends go it is less important to live."
37
"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
37
"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters."
37
"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."
37
"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
37
"When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous."
37
"All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former."
37
"My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it."
37
"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman."
37
"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
37
"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction."
37
"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
37
"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."
37
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