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Quotes by President
"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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"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
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"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."
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"The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much."
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"When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities."
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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
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"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
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"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
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"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
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"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
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"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
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"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
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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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"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."
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"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
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"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
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"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
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"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
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"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."
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"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
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"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."
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"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
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"I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed."
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"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."
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"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world."
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"It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail."
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"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
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