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1722 President Quotes

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Important Single Ingredient Formula
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I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Pity Worth Admire Creature
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Hard Fail Worse Try
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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Great Mind Overcome Obstacle
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Destroy America Prosperity Peace
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Moment Decision Best Next
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Man Make Mistake Anything
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Job Men Prove Ability
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Vote Rifle Useful Depend
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Ask Job Certain Busy
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Men Live Loft Ideas
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Human End Create End
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Dare Mighty Win Triumph
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Worth Salt Ready Risk
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Labour Pain Effort Energy
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Care Other Think Much
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Always Belief Better Better Life
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Alien Country Democracy Forget
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Accident Bet Happens Nothing
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Bad Bad Luck Bird Consider
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Abundance Add Enough Little
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Ability Civilization Cultivate Human
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Continuing Control Enough Government
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Been Begins Certain Certain Point
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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Admit Another Fails Frankly
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Achievement Creative Effort Happiness
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Air America Attacked Date
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Lost Rivers Sea Self-Interest
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Else Everyone Extra Just
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Bring Long Long Time Past
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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Ninety Ninety Percent People Percent
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

American Cycle Destiny Events
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Forward Going Many One-Way
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
End Hang Knot Reach
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Empty Empty Stomach Failing Full
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Conservative Forward Good How
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Necessarily Are Not Principles
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Fear Itself Only The Only Thing
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Affection Enemy Self-Interest True
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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Ask Get Going Got
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Experts Many Opinions AS
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Fate Men Minds Only
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Apart Danger Either Forward
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ability Ambition Appetite Assert
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Down Economic Else Go
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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Along Best Go How
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Beginning Between Brutal Differences
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Cannot Dictatorships Economic Economic Security
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Colleagues Fellow I Can Pick
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Allowing Authority Conflicting Force
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