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36th president of US (1908 - 1973)

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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...

Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

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