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Quotes by President
"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
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"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."
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"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur."
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"I am in support of the NRA position on gun control."
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"The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations."
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"When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."
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"A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving."
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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
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"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
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"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
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"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
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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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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."
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"Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life."
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"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
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"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
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"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration."
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
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"On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future."
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"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."
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"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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"There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things."
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"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
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"Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people."
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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
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"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
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"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
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