"No man will ever carry out of..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
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“I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.”
“The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.”
“Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
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“If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.”
“As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.”
“great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.”