We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Work:
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Work: In a speech at the White House, 1962
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Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?
Author: Bill Clinton
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
Author: George W. Bush
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
Author: George W. Bush
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And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per
Author: Bill Clinton
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Work: Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Work: Lincoln and the Civil War In the Diaries and Letters of John Hay selected by Tyler Dennett
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Work: "Letter to Horace Greeley" August 22, 1862
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...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Work: Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
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