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    A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

    Success | Government | Justice


    After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

    Existence | Laws | Almost


    I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

    Truth | Wind | Gentle


    No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

    Law | Spirit | Breaking


    Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

    Laws | Public | Execute


    Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

    Together | Fly | Minds


    He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

    Government | Care | Rich


    In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

    Government | Office | National


    Honor lies in honest toil.

    Work | Honor | Honest


    Some day I will be better remembered.

    Remembered


    Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

    Politics | Trust | Public


    I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

    Honor | Pension | Republic


    Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

    Agents | Masters


    I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

    Men | Powerful | Rules


    It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

    Defeated | Principle | High


    I have tried so hard to do right.

    Tried


    The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

    Peace | Nation | Necessity


    Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

    Dreams | Eyes | Night


    Party honesty is party expediency.

    Politics | Honesty | Party


    What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

    Stand | Unless | Elected


       

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