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George Washington

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“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses”

John Adams

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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide”

Thomas Jefferson

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“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading”

James Madison

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“If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within”

James Monroe

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“It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money”

John Quincy Adams

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“Whoever tells the best story wins”

Andrew Jackson

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“Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe”

Martin Van Buren

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“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't”

William Harrison

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“Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness”

John Tyler

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“Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality”

Zachary Taylor

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“For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield”

Millard Fillmore

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“The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust”

Franklin Pierce

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“If your past is limited, your future is boundless”

James Buchanan

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“I am the last President of the United States”

Abraham Lincoln

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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe”

Andrew Johnson

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“If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country”

Ulysses Grant

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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other”

Rutherford Hayes

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“Every expert was once a beginner”

James Garfield

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“Right reason is stronger than force”

Chester Arthur

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“If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth”

Grover Cleveland

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“Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again”

Benjamin Harrison

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“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world”

William McKinley

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“The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go”

Theodore Roosevelt

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“Comparison is the thief of joy”

William Taft

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“Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment”

Woodrow Wilson

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“The fewer the desires, the more peace”

Warren Harding

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“We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation”

Calvin Coolidge

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“Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still”

Herbert Hoover

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“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next”

Franklin Roosevelt

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“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea”

Harry Truman

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“All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it”

Dwight Eisenhower

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“The sergeant is the Army”

John F Kennedy

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“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”

Lyndon Johnson

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“You aren't learning anything when you're talking”

Richard Nixon

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“Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself”

Gerald Ford

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“There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things”