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The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Jean-Baptiste Say

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Rutherford B. Hayes

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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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 buck stops here.

Harry S. Truman