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1722 President Quotes

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Liberty Government History Power
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Leader Ring Voices People
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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

Radical Understand Conservative Far
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Religion Human service Work Good
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Identity Cause Successful Leadership
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

World Democracy Peace Political
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Democracy Form Government Principles
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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

True Man World Fashion
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Me Right Fight
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Seek Reign Law Mankind
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Caution Confidential Selfishness
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

World Servants Masters Purposes
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Obstacle Overcome Brave men Challenge
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Government Give Everything You
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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Truth Holds Government
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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

History Experience Moral Trial
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The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

Harder Work Luckier Hell
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Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.

Never Satisfied Best effort Strive
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There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

Challenging Responsibility Awesome Mother
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Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

Life Important Ability Communicate
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Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Great Government Laws Rule
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We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

We Slip Backwards Foward
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I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

Believe Heart Mind Mercy
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My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy
Goal World Peace Build
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Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

Loyalty Truth Conscience Achievement
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Honor lies in honest toil.

Honor Lies Honest Toil
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A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end

Cause Worth Fighting End
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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Minds Act Private Activities
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Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

Patriotism Substitute Sound Currency
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Officeholders Agents People Masters
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Above all, tell the truth.

Above Tell Truth
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Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people

People Support Government
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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Politics Way None
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Fear Foundation Governments
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Essence Government Control Rivalries
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Tenderly Cherish Knowledge Read
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Democracy Wastes Murders Sucide
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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Property Right Mankind Liberty
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The happiness of society is the end of government.

Happiness Society Government
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Words Instrument Faction Society
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Minds You Excercise Wish
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Power Thinks Soul Weak
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Great Guilt War
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Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Power God's Service Laws
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Liberty Preserved Knowledge People
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Politics War Liberty Philosophy
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Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Stand Principle Stand alone
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Government Freedom Liberty Forever
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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Children Educated Principles Freedom
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As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

Happiness People Government Consent
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