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Quotes by President
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
8
"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
8
"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace."
8
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
8
"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."
8
"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
8
"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
8
"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."
8
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
8
"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
8
"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."
8
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
8
"No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor."
8
"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
8
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
8
"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."
8
"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."
8
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
8
"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
8
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
7
"I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor."
7
"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
7
"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."
7
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
7
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
7
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
7
"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Will,
7
"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
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