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Quotes by President
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
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"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."
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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
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"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
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"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."
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"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
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"I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President."
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"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
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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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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
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"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
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"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."
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"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
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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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"I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence."
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"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
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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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"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
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"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."
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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
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"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes."
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"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."
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"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
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"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."
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"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility."
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"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."
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