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Quotes by President
"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."
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"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
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"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
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"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."
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"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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"Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people."
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"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."
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"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."
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"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."
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"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
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"As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future."
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"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
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"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
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"It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail."
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"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
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"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
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"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."
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"The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions."
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"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
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"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."
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"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness."
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"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
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"Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?"
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"Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue."
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"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
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"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."
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"When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill."
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"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."
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"Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government."
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