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Quotes by President
"Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?"
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"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."
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"The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted."
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"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
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"It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail."
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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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"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."
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"It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready."
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"Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?"
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"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
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"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
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"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."
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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 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."
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"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
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"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
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"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother."
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"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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"I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town."
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"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."
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"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
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"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
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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 last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."
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"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
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