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Quotes by President
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
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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."
31
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect."
31
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
31
"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."
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"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."
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"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."
31
"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny."
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"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."
31
"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
30
"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."
30
"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,
30
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
30
"Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you."
30
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
30
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
29
"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
29
"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."
29
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
29
"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
29
"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."
29
"I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all."
28
"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
28
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
28
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
28
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
28
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
Luck,
28
"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."
28
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
28
"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."
28
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
27
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
27
"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."
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