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President
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"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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Ronald Reagan
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"We must guard against... the military-industrial complex."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Read my lips: no new taxes."
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George H.W. Bush
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"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
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Bill Clinton
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
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Thomas Jefferson
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"We will make America great again!"
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Donald Trump
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"The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it."
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Andrew Jackson
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We Polked you in '44, We shall _____ you in '52. (campaign slogan)
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Franklin Pierce
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"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
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Andrew Johnson
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"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed."
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William Henry Harrison
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"Public office is a public trust."
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Grover Cleveland
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
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John Quincy Adams
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"I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
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George W. Bush
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"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
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William Howard Taft
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"We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it."
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Joe Biden
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"In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land."
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Herbert Hoover
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
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George Washington
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"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonest victory."
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Millard Fillmore
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"I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free."
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John Tyler
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"The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best."
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
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Benjamin Harrison
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
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Abraham Lincoln
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"Yes we can."
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Barack Obama
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"The buck stops here."
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Harry S. Truman
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"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
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Gerald R. Ford
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"I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish—nothing to serve but my country."
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Zachary Taylor
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it’s the other way around."
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Jimmy Carter
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"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."
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Warren G. Harding
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“Let us have peace."
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Ulysses S. Grant
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"Facts are stubborn things."
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John Adams
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"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."
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William McKinley
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"I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business."
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Chester A. Arthur
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Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! (campaign slogan)
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James K. Polk
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"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."
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Martin Van Buren
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"The world must be made safe for democracy."
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Woodrow Wilson
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"The American continents... are henceforth not to be subjects for future colonization by European power."
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James Monroe
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"The business of America is business."
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Calvin Coolidge
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
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John F. Kennedy
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"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
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James Buchanan
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"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
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James Madison
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"I am not a crook."
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Richard Nixon
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
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Theodore Roosevelt
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“I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.”
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James A. Garfield
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"I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy."
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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