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Quotes by President
"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."
7
"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals."
7
"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."
7
"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
7
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""
7
"If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect."
7
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
7
"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
7
"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
7
"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
7
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
7
"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
7
"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act."
7
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
7
"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."
7
"I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president."
7
"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."
7
"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States."
7
"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."
7
"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
7
"In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you."
7
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
6
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
6
"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
6
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
6
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
6
"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
6
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