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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
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The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
William Henry Harrison
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Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.
Jimmy Carter
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Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
Herbert Hoover
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If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.
Calvin Coolidge
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Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.
Ulysses S. Grant
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My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.
George W. Bush
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When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
Bill Clinton
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The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account
James Madison
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Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
John Adams
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
Woodrow Wilson
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One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic.
William Howard Taft
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I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.
Andrew Jackson
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Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.
George H. W. Bush
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If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
James Buchanan
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I did say something in our negotiations in Iceland in Russian: Dovorey no provorey. That means trust, but verify.
Ronald Reagan
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.
Benjamin Harrison
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We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
Warren G. Harding
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