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Quotes by President
"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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"Radio was theater of the mind."
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"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."
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"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."
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"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."
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"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
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"To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
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"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
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"There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter."
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"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."
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"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."
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"Presidents are selected, not elected."
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"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
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"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins."
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"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government."
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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
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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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"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."
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"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
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"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
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