Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

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We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

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