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Quotes by President
"Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet."
2
"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
2
"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."
2
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
2
"'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."
2
"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."
2
"We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again."
2
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
2
"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing."
2
"Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters."
2
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
2
"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse."
2
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
2
"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
2
"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."
2
"Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease."
2
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
2
"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."
2
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
2
"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."
2
"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
2
"Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far."
2
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
2
"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."
2
"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
2
"When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."
2
"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."
2
"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."
2
"A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving."
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