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Quotes by President
"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
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"To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes."
32
"To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny."
32
"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."
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"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."
32
"I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."
32
"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."
31
"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner."
31
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
31
"An American tragedy in which we all have played a part."
31
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
31
"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
31
"Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other."
31
"It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi."
31
"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."
31
"The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
31
"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory."
31
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
31
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
31
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
31
"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."
31
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official."
31
"My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution."
31
"Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was a very beautiful and almost terrible sight; for the sun rose behind the storm, and shone through the gusty rifts, lighting the mountain-crests here and there, while the plain below lay shrouded in the lingering night. The angry, level rays edged the dark clouds with crimson, and turned the downpour into sheets of golden rain; in the valleys the glimmering mists were tinted every wild hue; and the remotest heavens were lit with flaming glory."
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"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become."
30
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
30
"In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."
30
"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
30
"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
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