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Quotes by President
"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."
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"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."
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"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
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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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"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
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"The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us..."
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"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
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"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office."
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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
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"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
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"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."
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"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
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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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"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war."
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"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."
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"Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination."
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"Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence."
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"Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent."
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"Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone."
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"I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat."
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"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
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"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."
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"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."
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"But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues."
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