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Quotes by President
"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session."
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"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."
36
"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
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"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
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"Life is one grand sweet song so start the music."
36
"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
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"Believe you can, and you're halfway there."
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"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
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"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."
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"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
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"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."
35
"Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference."
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"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
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"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer."
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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
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"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
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"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
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"Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it."
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"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."
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"With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate."
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"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur."
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"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
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"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned."
35
"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."
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"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."
35
"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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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."
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"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."
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"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."
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"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
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"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."
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"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."
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