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Quotes by President
"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."
2
"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
2
"I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign."
Will,
2
"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."
2
"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."
2
"People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened."
2
"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."
2
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."
2
"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
2
"Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression."
2
"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."
2
"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
2
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
2
"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another."
2
"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
2
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
2
"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
2
"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
2
"We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to remember. What else is there to guide us? Those values are our inheritance, what makes us who we are as a people. And although we recognize that they are subject to challenge, can be poked and prodded and debunked and turned inside out bu intellectuals and cultural critics, they have proven to be both surprisingly durable and surprisingly constant across classes, and races, and faiths, and generations. We can make claims on their behalf, so long as we understand that our values must be tested against fact and experience, so long as we recall that they demand deeds and not just words."
2
"Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth."
2
"With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
2
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
2
"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."
2
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
2
"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
2
"No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America."
2
"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."
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