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1722 President Quotes

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Brutality War Hate Lived
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

History Party Hear Farm
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Disloyal Confuse Honest Doctrine
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Before Ever Like More
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Above Both Loses People
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Care Total Medical Freedom
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Clothed Cold Every Fed
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Absurd Breath Mention Name
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Peace Day People Leaders
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Love Cure Faith Energy
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Action Ensure Real Today
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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Aims Achieve Effort Scare
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Accept Certain Inhibitions Uniform
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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Both Clear Country Entitled
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It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Able Far Hit Over
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Law Rule Recall Show
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Courts Obey Orders Troops
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Orders Court Room Basic
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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Found Glory Know Later
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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Survival Included Our Simple
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Always Nearly Knees Neat
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Age Fear Few Long
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Coin Justice Peace Same
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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Always Good Ideas Moves
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Care Long Timid Weak
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Existed Ever Book Join
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Cannot Problem Solved
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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Assault Over Lead Head
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Noble True Sense Politics
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

History Today Way Like
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Search Absolute Vain Bankrupt
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Ability Include Peaceful War
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Home Far One Number
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Care Wins Game Man
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Choice Chance Free History
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Keep Free Only Faith
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Wish String Pull Push
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Wealth Nation Spirit Fiber
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The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Lousy Talk Hear Word
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Defend Within Far Trying
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Past Worthy Itself Prove
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Climate Peace Seek Freedom
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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.

Gone Scared Long Stick
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Heritage Fruitful Free Protect
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Human Process First Wisdom
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Politics Battle Lose Last
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Fight Even Peace Going
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

First Heart Pass Come
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Character Country Duty FromTimeToTime
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If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Campaign Come Cynicism Join
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