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Quotes by President
"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
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"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."
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"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."
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"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
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"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
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"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
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"Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you."
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
33
"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
33
"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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"I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around."
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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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"Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country."
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"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."
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"Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good."
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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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"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."
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"The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men."
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"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
32
"The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament."
32
"Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising."
32
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."
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"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."
32
"People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened."
32
"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression."
32
"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another."
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"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
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"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
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