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Quotes by President
"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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"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."
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"To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute."
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"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."
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"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."
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"I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign."
Will,
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"People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened."
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"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."
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"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
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"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
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"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
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"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men."
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"When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?"
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"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
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"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
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"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."
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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
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"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."
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"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."
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"Believe that you can and you are halfway there."
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"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed."
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"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power."
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"The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience."
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"We are the change we have been waiting for."
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"For of those to whom much is given, much is required."
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"Man is not free unless government is limited."
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"Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches."
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