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Quotes by President
"Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it."
30
"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."
30
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
30
"The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions."
30
"Believe that you can and you are halfway there."
30
"Truth is the glue that holds government together."
30
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
30
"Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more."
30
"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
30
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
30
"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
29
"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."
29
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
29
"A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him."
29
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
29
"The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good."
29
"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
29
"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
29
"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."
29
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
29
"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
29
"Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America."
29
"Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
29
"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation."
29
"The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."
29
"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
28
"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."
28
"The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest."
28
"In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end."
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