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Quotes by President
"Do what you can with what you have where you are."
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"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
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"I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"As government expands, liberty contracts."
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"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
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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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"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."
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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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"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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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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"Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing."
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"No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their functions and actions."
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"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
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"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
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"I feel like a Bull Moose."
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"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."
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"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
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"The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes."
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"The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive."
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