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Quotes by President
"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
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"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
3
"In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance."
3
"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."
3
"We need men who can dream of things that never were."
3
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."
3
"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
3
"Party honesty is party expediency."
3
"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."
3
"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."
3
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
3
"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."
3
"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
3
"I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve."
3
"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."
3
"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."
3
"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice."
3
"No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred."
3
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
3
"I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers."
3
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
3
"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"
3
"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
3
"We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell."
3
"In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
3
"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."
3
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
3
"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
3
"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."
3
"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."
3
"I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it."
3
"Things are more like today than they have ever been before."
3
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
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