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Quotes by President
"It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment."
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"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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"If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none."
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"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."
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"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."
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"The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation."
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"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
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"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes."
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"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
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"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
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"It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi."
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"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."
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"The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men."
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"President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves."
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"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
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"Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session."
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"The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
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"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us."
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"The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies."
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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."
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"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."
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"Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising."
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"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
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"I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president."
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"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."
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"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
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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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"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."
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"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president."
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"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."
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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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