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Quotes by President
"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
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"A people without children would face a hopeless future, a country without trees is almost as helpless."
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"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."
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"You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box."
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"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."
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"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
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"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong."
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"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
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"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
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"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."
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"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."
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"Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."
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"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
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"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
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"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
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"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."
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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books."
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"It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders."
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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
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"I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
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"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
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"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
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"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."
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"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
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"The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it."
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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
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"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
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"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."
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"We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service."
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"The average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very muchhigher."
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"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
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"It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object."
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"That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves."
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