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Quotes by President
"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead."
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"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
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"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."
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"I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past."
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"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
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"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
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"All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary."
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"It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training."
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"I know of 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."
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"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
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"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."
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"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
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"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
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"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
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"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them."
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"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."
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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."
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"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."
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
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"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."
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"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."
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"If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you."
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"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity."
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"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."
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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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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
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"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
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