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Quotes by President
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
58
"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act."
58
"A man without a vote is man without protection."
58
"We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny."
58
"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
57
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
57
"Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
57
"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."
57
"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
57
"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."
56
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
56
"The reward of suffering is experience."
56
"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
56
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
56
"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."
56
"No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody."
56
"It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors."
56
"The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - like the White House press office - who can make their arguments most loudly, most frequently, most obstinately, and with the best backdrop."
56
"I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it."
56
"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."
56
"We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States."
56
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
55
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
55
"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."
55
"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."
55
"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."
55
"The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking."
55
"America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger."
55
"Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents."
55
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
54
"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."
54
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
54
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
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