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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

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Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.

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My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

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Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

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MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

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The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

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Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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