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Quotes by President
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
47
"The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition."
46
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
46
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
45
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
45
"I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
Vote,
44
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
44
"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
44
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."
44
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
43
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
43
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
43
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
43
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
42
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
Luck,
42
"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us."
42
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
41
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect."
41
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
41
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
41
"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny."
41
"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
40
"I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all."
40
"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."
40
"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
40
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
40
"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
40
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
39
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."
39
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
39
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