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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams, John Dryden

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Henry Ford

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

A public office is a public trust.

Attributed to Roman law and American statesmen

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Popular culture

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Herbert Hoover

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Ronald Reagan