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Quotes by President
"The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth."
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
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"With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
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"Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues."
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"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."
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"The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions."
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"It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready."
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"The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits."
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
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"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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"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
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"I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers."
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"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."
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"...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same."
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"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."
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"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."
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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
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"I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."
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"I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course."
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"This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia."
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"I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it."
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
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"I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."
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"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
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"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
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"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
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"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
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"Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency."
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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
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"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."
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"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
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"People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head."
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"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
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"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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"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."
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"'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."
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