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"You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate." -
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"I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to."
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"A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment."
"PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom � and of whom only � it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President."
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