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Quotes by President
"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,
23
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
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"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."
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"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
23
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
22
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
22
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect."
22
"Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise."
22
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
22
"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."
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"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
21
"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."
21
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
21
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
21
"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny."
21
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
Luck,
20
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
20
"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
20
"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."
20
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
19
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
19
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
19
"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."
19
"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."
19
"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."
19
"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."
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