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Quotes by President
"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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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
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"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
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"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
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"It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi."
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"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
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"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."
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"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
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"The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies."
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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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"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."
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"I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property."
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"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
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"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
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"I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence."
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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise."
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"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."
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"Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury."
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"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule."
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