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Quotes by President
"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."
2
"Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency."
2
"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
2
"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."
2
"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded."
2
"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
2
"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
2
"Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference."
2
"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."
2
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
2
"The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage."
2
"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong."
2
"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."
2
"If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none."
2
"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
2
"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
2
"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
2
"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
2
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
2
"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
2
"As friends go it is less important to live."
2
"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."
2
"One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."
2
"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer."
2
"I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution."
2
"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."
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