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Quotes by President
"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."
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"No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem."
10
"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
10
"In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence."
10
"Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?"
10
"Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
10
"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind."
10
"In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance."
10
"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."
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"Truth is the glue that holds government together."
10
"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."
10
"The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers. Of course there is no reason for choosing the cube as a symbol, except that it is probably less fitted than any other mathematical expression for any but the most formal decorative art. There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, or Knights of the Isosceles Triangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another."
10
"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"
10
"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
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"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."
10
"Things are more like today than they have ever been before."
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"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
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"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!"
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"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of 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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"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother."
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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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"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."
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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."
9
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
9
"I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk."
9
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."
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