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Quotes by President
"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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"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America."
3
"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."
3
"Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations."
3
"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction."
3
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
3
"Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law."
3
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
3
"The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth."
3
"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."
3
"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
3
"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."
3
"You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character."
3
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
3
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
3
"I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law."
3
"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."
3
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
3
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
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"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
3
"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."
3
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
3
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
3
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
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