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Quotes by President
"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."
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"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."
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"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
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"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard."
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"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"
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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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"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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"The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."
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"Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day."
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"Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'."
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"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
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"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
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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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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
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"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."
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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."
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"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."
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"To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the highest idea of the family is attainable only where the father and mother stand to each other as lovers and friends. In these homes the children are bound to father and mother by ties of love, respect, and obedience, which are simply strengthened by the fact that they are treated as reasonable beings with rights of their own, and that the rule of the household is changed to suit the changing years, as childhood passes into manhood and womanhood."
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"He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth."
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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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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
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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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"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
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"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
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"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."
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"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."
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"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
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"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
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"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."
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"To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too."
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