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1722 President Quotes

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Important Business Government
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Prosperity Restored Raid Public treasury
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Worst evil Disregard Law Respect
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Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

Peace Contributed Respect ability
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Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

Peace Promoted Limitation Creation
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There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Meet Unpaid Bill Nation
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Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Economic freedom Sacrificed Political
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The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Glory Nation Character Boyhood
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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

Self government Succeed Instructed electorate
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The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Profound truth Progress Peace All humanity
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A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

People Ballot Possess Unlimited power
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The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Spirit Liberalism Free men Regimentation
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True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Liberal government Emancipation Men
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Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Democracy Static Living force New idea
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Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Free government Most difficult Everlastingly true
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Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Freedom Die Front attack Men
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Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Freedom conceives Mind Spirit Own life
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We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Have government Builds stamina Communities
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If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Entering Feel Happy Happy Man
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What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
Different Different Things Right Things
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Among Ballot Ballot Box Box
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Alliance Attempt Avoid Been
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Elicit Greatness Humanity Leadership
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Angels Government Men Necessary
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Abroad Against Charged Danger
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Advantage Afraid Almost American
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Come Enemy Fighting Foreign
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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.

Branches Charter Constitutional Derived
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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.

Administer Assemble Citizens Consisting
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Abuse Essence Ever Government
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Having Men Ought Power
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Believe Freedom Gradual I Believe
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Arm Forever Gives Govern
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Advancement Diffusion Guardian Knowledge
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Arms Best Body Composed
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Any Before Branch Commerce
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Accepted Alone Concur Constitution
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Blood Ceaseless Centuries Church
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Against Become Danger Defense
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Control Enable First Framing
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Diversity Faculties First Government
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Against Best Crafty Dangerous
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Government Greatest Human Human Nature
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Alarm Experiment First Liberties
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Equally He His Man
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Avail Cannot Choice Laws
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Abuse Abuse Of Power Also Endangered
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Certain Certain Degree Degree Having
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Could Freedom Midst Nation
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Because Develops Dreaded Enemies
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