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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

James K. Polk

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Robert E. Lee

There's nothing left to do but get drunk.

Franklin Pierce Adams

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

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