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Quotes by President
"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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"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble."
13
"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
Man,
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"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
13
"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,
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"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."
13
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
13
"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."
13
"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors."
13
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
13
"I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment."
13
"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
13
"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."
13
"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."
13
"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."
13
"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
13
"But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues."
13
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
13
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."
13
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
13
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
13
"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results."
13
"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."
13
"I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president."
13
"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."
13
"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
13
"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."
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"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
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"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
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