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Quotes by President
"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."
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"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment."
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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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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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"And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
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"I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."
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"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
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"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
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"I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together."
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"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
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"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."
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"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property,...[One] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."
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"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."
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"Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream."
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"The federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government."
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"All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not."
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"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."
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"Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship."
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"A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible."
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"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say."
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"I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built."
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