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Quotes by President
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect."
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"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."
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
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"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
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"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
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"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
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"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
Man,
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"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."
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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."
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"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
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"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
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"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
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"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."
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"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
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"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
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"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
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"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
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"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
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"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."
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"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
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"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now."
Now,
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