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Quotes by President
"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
50
"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
50
"No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred."
50
"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
50
"It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds."
50
"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment."
50
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
50
"It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth."
50
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
50
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
50
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
49
"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
49
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
49
"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
49
"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
49
"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."
49
"I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment."
49
"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
49
"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness."
49
"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."
49
"We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
49
"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments."
49
"Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me."
49
"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."
49
"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."
49
"It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail."
49
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
48
"Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease."
48
"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword."
48
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