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Quotes by President
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
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"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
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"The reward of suffering is experience."
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"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
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"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
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"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
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"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling."
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"Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it."
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"In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains."
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"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis."
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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."
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"Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will."
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"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed."
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"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
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"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
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"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."
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"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."
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"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
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"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
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"I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties."
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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
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"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."
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"Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged."
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"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
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