I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
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If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
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All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours.
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt
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The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
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Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
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How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
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You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
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I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
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We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
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Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
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A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can ...
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