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Quotes by President
"'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."
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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
8
"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
8
"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."
8
"I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election."
8
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
8
"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."
8
"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
8
"We never repent of having eaten too little."
8
"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
8
"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon."
8
"I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both."
8
"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
8
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
8
"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
8
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
8
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
8
"Don't be afraid to see what you see."
8
"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."
8
"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
7
"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
7
"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
7
"Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God."
7
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
7
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
7
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
7
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
7
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
7
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft!"
7
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
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