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Quotes by President
"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."
48
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
48
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."
48
"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."
48
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
48
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
48
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
48
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
48
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
48
"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."
48
"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."
48
"We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell."
48
"As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here."
48
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
48
"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
48
"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
48
"Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people."
48
"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
48
"It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs."
48
"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."
47
"I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over."
47
"The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage."
47
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
47
"In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average."
47
"America is too great for small dreams."
47
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
47
"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."
47
"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
47
"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."
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