Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

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In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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The atom bomb was no ""great decision."" It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

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It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

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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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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

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When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

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