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Quotes by President
"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."
6
"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."
6
"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
6
"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
6
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
6
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."
6
"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation."
6
"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government."
6
"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."
6
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
6
"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."
6
"I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it."
Job,
5
"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large."
5
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
5
"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
5
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
5
"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
5
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
5
"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people."
5
"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office."
5
"The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble."
5
"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."
5
"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
5
"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."
5
"It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment."
5
"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
5
"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
5
"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
5
"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."
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