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Quotes by President
"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 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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"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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"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."
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"No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration."
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"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."
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"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."
Want,
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"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
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"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back."
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
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"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
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"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session."
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"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
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"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."
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"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
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"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."
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"I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past."
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"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
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"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
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"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
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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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"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."
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