Throughout the 250-year history of our great country, our presidents have represented us to the rest of the world as our primary spokesmen. Some have been eloquent statesmen, others have had a more \u201cdown home\u201d approach to expressing their philosophies, hopes, and dreams.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe power under the Constitution will always be in the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cAlways stand on principle even if you stand alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThose who trade liberty for security have neither.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cNational honor is the national property of the highest value.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cAlways vote for principle, though you may vote alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is a land, not of privileges, but of equal rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the act of government to their selfish purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of these constitutional powers, it should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cNations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cPatriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat a man does for himself dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cGovernment ought to be all outside and no inside\u2026. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cHuman kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cRepetition does not transform a lie into the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe the people elect leaders not to rule but to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cNever let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn\u2019t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cA nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cGovernment\u2019s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are a nation of communities\u2026 a bright diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe don\u2019t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI hope my own children never have to fight a war.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cOur destiny is not written for us, but by us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand that our strength comes from unity and not division\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cNothing threatens the integrity of our democracy more than when government officials put their public office up for sale.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019re a failing nation. We\u2019re a nation that\u2019s in serious decline. We\u2019re being laughed at all over the world. All over the world, they laugh, I know the leaders very well. They\u2019re coming to see me. They call me. We\u2019re laughed at all over the world.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis election will determine whether we\u2019re a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.\u201d<\/p>\n
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