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The Prohibition Amendment To The Constitution Requires The Congress. And The President To Provide Adequate Laws To Prevent Its Violation. It Is My Duty To Enforce Such Laws.to Prevent Smuggling, The Coast Card Should Be Greatly Strengthened, And A Supply Of Swift Power Boats Should Be Provided. The Major Sources Of Production Should Be Rigidly Regulated, And Every Effort Should Be Made To Suppress Interstate Traffic... It Is The Duty Of A Citizen Not Only To Observe The Law But To Let It Be Known That He Is Opposed To Its Violation.

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The Prohibition Amendment To The Constitution Requires The Congress. And The President To Provide Adequate Laws To Prevent Its Violation. It Is My Duty To Enforce Such Laws.to Prevent Smuggling, The Coast Card Should Be Greatly Strengthened, And A Supply Of Swift Power Boats Should Be Provided. The Major Sources Of Production Should Be Rigidly Regulated, And Every Effort Should Be Made To Suppress Interstate Traffic... It Is The Duty Of A Citizen Not Only To Observe The Law But To Let It Be Known That He Is Opposed To Its Violation.

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Advertising Is The Life Of Trade.

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If You See Ten Troubles Coming Down The Road, You Can Be Sure That Nine Will Run Into The Ditch Before They Reach You.

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At First I Intended To Become A Student Of The Senate Rules And I Did Learn Much About Them, But I Soon Found That The Senate Hadbut One Fixed Rule, Subject To Exceptions Of Course, Which Was To The Effect That The Senate Would Do Anything It Wanted To Do Whenever It Wanted To Do It.

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One With The Law Is A Majority.

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General Welfare

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I Always Figured The American Public Wanted A Solemn Ass For President, So I Went Along With Them.

I Want The People To Work Less For The Government And More For Themselves. I Want Them To Have The Rewards Of Their Own Industry.

One Insidious Practice Which Sugar-coats The Dose Of Federal Intrusion Is The Division Of Expense . . .

War Is The Rule Of Force, And Peace Is The Reign Of Law.

Duty Is Not Collective; It Is Personal.

What We Need Is Not More Federal Government, But Better Local Government.

If We Judge Ourselves Only By Our Aspirations And Everyone Else Only Their Conduct We Shall Soon Reach A Very False Conclusion.

Collecting More Taxes Than Is Absolutely Necessary Is Legalized Robbery.

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Knowledge Comes, But Wisdom Lingers. It May Not Be Difficult To Store Up In The Mind A Vast Quantity Of Facts Within A Comparatively Short Time, But The Ability To Form Judgments Requires The Severe Discipline Of Hard Work And The Tempering Heat Of Experience And Maturity.

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The Presidency Does Not Yield To Definition. Like The Glory Of A Morning Sunrise, It Can Be Experienced.

A Colored Man Is Precisely As Much Entitled To Submit His Candidacy In A Party Primary, As Is Any Other Citizen. The Decision Must Be Made By The Constituents To Whom He Offers Himself, And By Nobody Else.

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I Should Think That An Ordinary Copy Of The King James Version Would Have Been Good Enough For Those Congressmen.

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Doubters Do Not Achieve; Skeptics Do Not Contribute; Cynics Do Not Create.

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Money Will Not Purchase Character Or Good Government.

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Business Will Be Either Better Or Worse.

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You Can't Increase Prosperity By Taxing Success.

Inflation Is Repudiation.

We Insist On Producing A Farm Surplus, But Think The Government Should Find A Profitable Market For It. We Overindulge In Speculation, But Ask The Government To Prevent Panics. Now The Only Way To Hold The Government Entirely Responsible For Conditions Is To Give Up Our Liberty For A Dictatorship. If We Continue The More Reasonable Practice Of Managing Our Own Affairs We Must Bear The Burdens Of Our Own Mistakes. A Free People Cannot Shift Their Responsibility For Them To The Government. Self-government Means Self-reliance.

If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final. If They Are Endowed With Inalienable Rights, That Is Final. If Governments Derive Their Just Powers From The Consent Of The Governed, That Is Final. No Advance, No Progress Can Be Made Beyond These Propositions.

I Have Done It [appointed Commissions] Regretfully And With The Hope That It Would Be Temporary. But After A Commission Is Established You Find It Always Wants To Enlarge Itself, Employ More People, Is Very Busy With Senators And Congressmen To Impress Upon Them The Great Value Of The Services Of The Commission, And Even When I Talk To People That I Appoint To Commissions And Tell Them I Would Like Them To Go On To Various Boards With The Idea That They May Be Abolished, They Say They Ought To Be Abolished, But When They Have Taken Their Position They Very Soon Seem To Change Their Mind.

Patriotism Is Easy To Understand In America. It Means Looking Out For Yourself By Looking Out For Your Country.

To Expect To Increase Prices And Then To Maintain Them At A Higher Level By Means Of A Plan Which Must Of Necessity Increase Production While Decreasing Consumption Is To Fly In The Face Of An Economic Law As Well Established As Any Law Of Nature.

The Prohibition Amendment To The Constitution Requires The Congress. And The President To Provide Adequate Laws To Prevent Its Violation. It Is My Duty To Enforce Such Laws.to Prevent Smuggling, The Coast Card Should Be Greatly Strengthened, And A Supply Of Swift Power Boats Should Be Provided. The Major Sources Of Production Should Be Rigidly Regulated, And Every Effort Should Be Made To Suppress Interstate Traffic... It Is The Duty Of A Citizen Not Only To Observe The Law But To Let It Be Known That He Is Opposed To Its Violation.

Congress And The President

It Is Characteristic Of The Unlearned That They Are Forever Proposing Something Which Is Old, And Because It Has Recently Come To Their Own Attention, Supposing It To Be New.

Surprisingly Few Men Are Lacking In Capacity, But They Fail Because... They Are Too Indolent To Apply Themselves With The Seriousness And The Attention That Is Necessary To Solve Important Problems.

The Things I Never Say Never Get Me Into Trouble.

Never Say Never

To Place Your Name By Gift Or Bequest In The Keeping Of An Active Educational Institution Is To...make A Permanent Contribution To The Welfare Of Humanity.

We Need More Of The Office Desk And Less Of The Show Window In Politics. Let Men In Office Substitute The Midnight Oil For The Limelight.

The Constitution Is The Sole Source And Guaranty Of National Freedom.

Persistence And Determination Alone Are Omnipotent.

America Has Many Glories. The Last One That She Would Wish To Surrender Is The Glory Of The Men Who Have Served Her In War. While Such Devotion Lives, The Nation Is Secure. Whatever Dangers May Threaten From Within Or Without, She Can View Them Calmly. Turning To Her Veterans, She Can Say: 'these Are Our Defenders. They Are Invincible. In Them Is Our Safety.'

Those Who Want Their Rights Respected Under The Constitution And The Law Ought To Set The Example Themselves Of Observing The Constitution And The Law. While There May Be Those Of High Intelligence Who Violate The Law At Times, The Barbarian And The Defective Always Violate It. Those Who Disregard The Rules Of Society Are Not Exhibiting A Superior Intelligence, Are Not Promoting Freedom And Independence, Are Not Following The Path Of Civilization, But Are Displaying The Traits Of Ignorance, Of Servitude, Of Savagery, And Treading The Way That Leads Back To The Jungle.

It Has Become The Custom In Our Country To Expect All Chief Executives, From The President Down, To Conduct Activities Analogous To An Entertainment Bureau. No Occasion Is Too Trivial For Its Promoters To Invite Them To Attend And Deliver An Address.

Ultimately Property Rights And Personal Rights Are The Same Thing.

The Best Help That Benevolence And Philanthropy Can Give Is That Which Induces Everybody To Help Himself.

No Congress Of The United States Ever Assembled, On Surveying The State Of The Union, Has Met With A More Pleasing Prospect Than That Which Appears At The Present Time. In The Domestic Field There Is Tranquillity And Contentment, Harmonious Relations Between Management And Wage Earner, Freedom From Industrial Strife, And The Highest Record Of Years Of Prosperity.

It Would Be Difficult To Conceive A Finer Example Of True Sport.

Not Long Ago I Heard A Navy Chaplain Refer To The Sage Advice Of The Apostle To Put First Things First...if We Are To Heed The Admonition To Put First Things First...one Of The Main Essentials Which Lies At The Very Beginning Of Civilization Is That Of Security.

It Is Not The Enactment, But The Observance Of Laws, That Creates The Character Of A Nation.

If The People Lose Control Of The Arteries Of Trade And The Natural Sources Of Mechanical Power, The Nationalization Of All Industry Should Soon Be Expected. Our Forefathers Were Alert To Resist All Encroachments Upon Their Rights. If We Wish To Maintain Our Rights, We Can Do No Less.

Advertising Is The Most Potent Influence In Adapting And Changing The Habits And Modes Of Life Affecting What We Eat, What We Wear, And The Work And Play Of A Whole Nation.

Life Is One Darn Thing After Another.

There Is Far More Danger Of Harm Than There Is Hope Of Good In Any Radical Changes.

In Life There Is Nothing More Common Than Talent And Intelligence. What Is Missing Is Passion, Persistence, Commitment, And Dedication.

A Lost Article Invariably Shows Up After You Replace It.

Nothing In This World Can Take The Place Of Persistence. Talent Will Not: Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful Men With Talent.

The Government Of A Country Never Gets Ahead Of The Religion Of A Country. There Is No Way By Which We Can Substitute The Authority Of The Law For The Virtues Of Men.

It Is Very Difficult To Reconcile The American Ideal Of A Sovereign People Capable Of Owning And Managing Their Own Government With An Inability To Own And Manage Their Own Business.

Heroism Is Not Only In The Man, But In The Occasion.

I Shouldn't Want You To Be Surprised, Or To Draw Any Particular Inference From My Making Speeches, Or Not Making Speeches, Out There. I Don't Recall Any Candidate For President That Ever Injured Himself Very Much By Not Talking.

The Suggestion Of Denying Any Measure Of Their Full Political Rights To Such A Great Group Of Our Population As The Colored People Is One Which, However It Might Be Received In Some Other Quarters, Could Not Possibly Be Permitted By One Who Feels A Responsibility For Living Up To The Traditions And Maintaining The Principles Of The Republican Party. Our Constitution Guarantees Equal Rights To All Our Citizens, Without Discrimination On Account Of Race Or Color. I Have Taken My Oath To Support That Constitution.

Good Government Cannot Be Found On The Bargain-counter. We Have Seen Samples Of Bargain-counter Government In The Past When Low Tax Rates Were Secured By Increasing The Bonded Debt For Current Expenses Or Refusing To Keep Our Institutions Up To The Standard In Repairs, Extensions, Equipment, And Accommodations. I Refuse, And The Republican Party Refuses, To Endorse That Method Of Sham And Shoddy Economy.

History Reveals No Civilized People Among Whom There Was Not A Highly Educated Class And Large Aggregations Of Wealth. Large Profits Mean Large Payrolls.

When People Are Bewildered They Tend To Become Credulous.

[may] This Civic And Social Landmark [the Washington, D.c., Jewish Community Center] ... Be A Constant Reminder Of The Inspiring Service That Has Been Rendered To Civilization By Men And Women Of The Jewish Faith. May [visitors] Recall The Long Array Of Those Who Have Been Eminent In Statecraft, In Science, In Literature, In Art, In The Professions, In Business, In Finance, In Philanthropy And In The Spiritual Life Of The World.

I Cannot Think Of Anything Characteristically American That Was Not Produced By Toil. I Cannot Think Of Any American Man Or Woman Preeminent In The History Of Our Nation Who Did Not Reach Their Place Through Toil. I Cannot Think Of Anything That Represents The American People As A Whole So Adequately As Honest Work.

If There Is To Be Responsible Party Government, The Party Label Must Be Something More Than A Mere Device For Securing Office. Unless Those Who Are Elected Under The Same Party Designation Are Willing To Assume Sufficient Responsibility And Exhibit Sufficient Loyalty And Coherence, So That They Can Cooperate With Each Other In The Support Of The Broad General Principles, Of The Party Platform, The Election Is Merely A Mockery, No Decision Is Made At The Polls, And There Is No Representation Of The Popular Will.

The Two Great Political Parties Of The Nation Have Existed For The Purpose, Each In Accordance With Its Own Principles, Of Undertaking To Serve The Interests Of The Whole Nation. Their Members Of The Congress Are Chosen With That Great End In View.

I Guess I Am Not Naturally Energetic. I Like To Sit Around And Talk.

Nordics Deteriorate When Mixed With Other Races.

Prosperity Cannot Be Divorced From Humanity.

One Of The Greatest Perils To An Extensive Republic Is The Disregard Of Individual Rights.

Men Do Not Make Laws. They Do But Discover Them.

These Things Do Not Happen By Chance. There Is Much Less Luck In Public Affairs Than Some Suppose.

There Is No Justification For Public Interference With Purely Private Concerns.

America... Cherishes No Purpose Save To Merit The Favor Of Almighty God.

Governments Are Necessarily Continuing Concerns. They Have To Keep Going In Good Times And In Bad. They Therefore Need A Wide Margin Of Safety. If Taxes And Debt Are Made All The People Can Bear When Times Are Good, There Will Be Certain Disaster When Times Are Bad.

America Has But One Main Problem -- The Character Of The Men And Women It Shall Produce.

We Draw Our Presidents From The People. It Is A Wholesome Thing For Them To Return To The People. I Came From Them. I Wish To Be One Of Them Again.

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