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Quotes by President
"It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail."
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"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
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"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."
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"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."
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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
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"If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."
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"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place."
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"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
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"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known."
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"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
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"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
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"Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible."
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
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"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"
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"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
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