I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him.
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What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.
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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
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Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
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Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.
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Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself.
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It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.
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I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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I would wish that the women of our country could embrace ... [the responsibilities] of citizenship as peculiarly their own. If they could appl...
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A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.
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All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
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In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual we...
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Children are our most valuable natural resource.
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About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
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Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.
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More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not only in the...
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
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