American President Quotes
846 American President quotes:
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
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"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."
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"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
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"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
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"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
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"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
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"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
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"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
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"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
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"If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg."
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
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"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything."
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"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
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"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
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"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
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"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
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