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Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.

You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength.

An Administration would be unworthy of confidence at home or respect abroad should it cease to be influenced by the conviction that no apparent advantage can be purchased at a price so dear as that of national wrong or dishonor.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined for independence and command, and do so at the right time.

With foresight, and a willingness on the part of our people to face up to the vast responsibility which history has clearly placed upon our country, the difficulties I have outlined can and will be overcome.

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.

Great nations like great men must keep their word.

it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected

It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.

A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.

I have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk it.

I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk.

Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

Fully impressed with the gravity of the duties that confront me and mindful of my weakness, I should be appalled if it were my lot to bear unaided the responsibilities which await me.

In this time of doubt, they look to the United States as never before for good will, strength, and wise leadership.

I accept with humility the honor which the American people have conferred upon me.