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Quotes by President
"When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."
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"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."
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"A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving."
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"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
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"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."
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"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."
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"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
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"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
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"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
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"The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong."
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"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory."
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"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement."
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"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
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"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."
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"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."
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"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
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"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."
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"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
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"Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life."
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"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."
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"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."
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"We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare."
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"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."
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"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."
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"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
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"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."
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"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
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"I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign."
Will,
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"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."
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"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."
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