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Quotes by President
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
21
"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."
21
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
21
"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."
21
"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."
21
"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
21
"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."
Now,
20
"I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President."
20
"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
20
"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
20
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
20
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
20
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
20
"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."
20
"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."
20
"I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence."
20
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
20
"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
20
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
20
"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."
20
"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
20
"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."
20
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
20
"I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president."
20
"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
20
"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."
20
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
20
"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
19
"I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over."
19
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
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