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Quotes by President
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
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"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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"Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues."
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"I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it."
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"It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer."
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"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"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."
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"Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admirethe gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to dowrong to the republic."
21
"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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"In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known."
21
"America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about."
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"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."
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"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
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"If you're explaining, you're losing."
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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 am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."
21
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
21
"After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden."
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"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."
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"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
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"Things are more like today than they have ever been before."
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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
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"I want to see you shoot the way you shout."
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"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
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"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place."
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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
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"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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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
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