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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the
character of an honest man.—George Washington
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice Presidency) that ever the invention of man
contrived or his imagination conceived.—John Adams
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Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.—Thomas Jefferson
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.—James Madison
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.—James Monroe
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If your actions inspire others to
dream more, learn more, do
more and become more,
you are a leader.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.—Andrew Jackson
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It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. —Martin Van Buren
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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed-William Henry Harrison
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I can never consent to being dictated to.—John Tyler
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I am heartily rejoiced that my
term is so near its close. I will soon
cease to be a servant and will
become a sovereign.
No president who performs his duties
faithfully and conscientiously
can have any leisure.
James K. Polk
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.—Zachary Taylor
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Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are
betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.—Millard Fillmore
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You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.—Franklin Pierce
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What is right and what is
practicable are two different
things.
Whatever the result may be, I
shall carry to my grave the
consciousness that I at least
meant well for my country.
James Buchanan
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My great concern is not whether you
have failed, but whether you are
content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.
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Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.—Andrew Johnson
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.—Ulysses S. Grant
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Must swear off from swearing.
Bad habit.
…I was ready to resort to unusual measures and to risk my own standing and reputation within my party and the country.
Rutherford Hayes
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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.—James A. Garfield
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There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant…probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper,
patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.—Chester Arthur
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Above all, tell the truth
A man is known by the company he
keeps, and also by the company from
which he is kept out.
Grover Cleveland
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Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.—Benjamin Harrison
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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.—William McKinley
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The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does
nothing.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.—William H. Taft
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Woodrow Wilson
If you want to make enemies, try to
change something.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies . . . but my damn friends, they're the ones that keep
me walking the floor nights.—Warren Harding
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It takes a great man to be a good
listener.
We cannot do everything at once,
but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing
what to do next.
Words without actions are the
assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover
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A good leader can't get too far
ahead of his followers.
It is common sense to take a method
and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try
something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit.
All my life, whenever it comes
time to make a decision, I make it
and forget about it.
Harry S. Truman
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Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you
want done because he wants to do it.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.—Lyndon B. Johnson
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Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you
don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.—Richard Nixon
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The ultimate test of leadership is not the polls you take, but the risks you take. In the short run, some risks prove overwhelming. Political courage
can be self-defeating. But the greatest defeat of all would be to live without courage, for that would hardly be living at all.—Gerald Ford
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Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.—Jimmy Carter
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A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be
undaunted when the going gets rough.—Ronald Reagan
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We must act on what we know. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; in important things,
diversity; in all things, generosity. —George H. W. Bush
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Being President is like being the
groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are
a lot of people under you, but none
of them are listening.
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you
learn from them, you'll be a better
person.
William J. Clinton
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I have a different vision of leadership. A leader is someone who brings people together.—George W. Bush
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.—Barack
Obama
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“Now look, you cannot start off with the feeling that the job must run you; that you have to do it this way because this is the way Truman did
it.”
—Advice given to President-Elect John F. Kennedy in 1960 by Columbia Political Science Professor Richard Neustadt
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