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Quotes by President
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
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"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
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"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."
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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."
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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
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"The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much."
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"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."
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"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."
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"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
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"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
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"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
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"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
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"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."
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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence."
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"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
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"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
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"If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
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"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
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"Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit."
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"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back."
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
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"In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence."
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"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future."
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