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Quotes by President
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
13
"It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me."
13
"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."
13
"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us."
13
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
13
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
13
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
12
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
12
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
Luck,
12
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
12
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
12
"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
12
"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."
12
"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
11
"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
11
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
11
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
11
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
11
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."
11
"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."
11
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
11
"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
11
"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
11
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
11
"Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you."
11
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
11
"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."
11
"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
10
"My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."
10
"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
10
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
10
"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
10
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect."
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