Quotes by Presidents

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan

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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. Ronald Reagan

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It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. William J. Clinton

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Everybody likes a compliment. Abraham Lincoln

Everybody Compliment Likes

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln

Religion Man Dog Better Care Cat Much Whose

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman

Government You Dictatorship Efficient

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

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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. Thomas Jefferson

Love Politics Everyone Torment Advise Mix

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. Abraham Lincoln

You Enemies Friend Same Who

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Barack Obama

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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. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. George Washington

Success Soul Army Discipline Weak Small Makes Esteem Formidable Numbers

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. John F. Kennedy

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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Lyndon B. Johnson

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If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. Richard M. Nixon

You Risks Win Will Take Victories Suffer Defeats Chance

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson

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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson