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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
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If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
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We worship money instead of honour.
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There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
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If you can't stand the heat, then move to Minnesota. They have snow in May.
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The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.
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It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts...
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I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
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We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others...
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A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
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The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command.
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It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. Now, if Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over a watershed they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court and abide by its decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally.
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Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
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I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.
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Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.
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A President cannot always be popular.
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There's nothing better than cake but more cake.
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This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.