"We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth."
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"Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process."
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"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known."
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"It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker."
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"America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
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"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."
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"Conservation means development as much as it does protection."
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"We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect."
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"To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life."
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"Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch."
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"In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor."
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"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."
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"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
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"It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power."
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"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it."
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"I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks."
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"There is no indispensable man."
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"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight."
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"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books"
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"Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us."
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