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Quotes by President
"There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."
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"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
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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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"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."
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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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"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
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"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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". . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
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"I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."
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"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
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"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."
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"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
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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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"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government."
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"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
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"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
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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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"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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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."
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"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
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"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."
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"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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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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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
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"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner."
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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
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