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Quotes by President
"We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government."
23
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
23
"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
23
"No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody."
23
"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
23
"There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S."
22
"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."
22
"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."
22
"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."
22
"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."
22
"I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment."
22
"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."
22
"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."
22
"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility."
22
"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."
22
"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."
21
"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
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21
"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
21
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
21
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
21
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
21
"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."
21
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
21
"If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you."
21
"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
21
"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."
21
"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act."
21
"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
21
"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
21
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
21
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
21
"Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result."
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