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Quotes by President
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."
18
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
18
"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."
18
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
18
"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
17
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
17
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
17
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
17
"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
17
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
17
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
17
"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
17
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
17
"Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you."
17
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
17
"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."
17
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
17
"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."
16
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
16
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
16
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
16
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
16
"I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world."
16
"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
16
"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act."
16
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
16
"No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody."
16
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
16
"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
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