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Quotes by President
"That is why I decline to recognize the meremultimillionaire, the man of mere wealth, as an asset of value to any country;and especially as not an asset to my own country. If he has earned or uses hiswealth in a way that makes him a real benefit, of real use- and such is often thecase- why, then he does become an asset of real worth."
39
"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
39
"A man without a vote is man without protection."
39
"Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
38
"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."
38
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
38
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
38
"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
38
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
37
"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."
37
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
37
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
37
"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."
37
"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise."
37
"Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you."
37
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
37
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
36
"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."
36
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
36
"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."
36
"Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe."
36
"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
36
"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."
36
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
36
"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."
36
"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
36
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
36
"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
36
"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
35
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
35
"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."
35
"Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere."
35
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
35
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
35
"It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me."
35
"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
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