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Quotes by President
"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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"Things are more like today than they have ever been before."
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"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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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
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"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."
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"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions."
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"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment."
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"Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me."
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"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country."
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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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"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
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"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
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"I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around."
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"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
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"My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together."
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"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks."
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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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"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
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"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
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"I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."
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"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."
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"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
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"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."
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"The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."
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"At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving."
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"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."
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"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood."
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"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world."
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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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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
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"Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country."
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