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  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

  John Quincy Adams

  Patriotic, Reflection, Political Will

  "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

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  Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Xenophobia, Patriotic, Usa

  Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."

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• Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Freedom, Media, Presidential

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Nature, Order

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• It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

  Martin Van Buren

  Jobs, Business, Service Culture

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• Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Change, Destiny, History

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• For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, Sleep, Patriotic

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, War, Military

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Bible, Book, Civilization

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Hilarious, Dog

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Love, America, Energy

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  Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Blessed, Government

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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• A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

  James Monroe

  Inspiring, Teaching, Men

  James Monroe, Daniel Preston, Marlena C. DeLong (2003). “The Papers of James Monroe: A documentary history of the presidential tours of James Monroe, 1817, 1818, 1819”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Failure, Men, Presidential

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

  William Howard Taft

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Presidential

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Presidential, Special

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.83, Humanix Books

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Childhood, Presidential

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• Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Peace, Military

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.63, Best Books on

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• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Country

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

  James K. Polk

  Patriotic, Political, President

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.261, Best Books on

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