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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

Care, Credit

"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

Truth, Feeling

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

Reading, Men, Victory, First

"In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity."

Man, Opinion, Years

"If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house."

President, States, United

"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"

Time, Committee

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

Man, Men, Belief, Being

"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."

Fact, Facts

"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now."

Now,

"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."

Friendship, Friend, Court, Man

Exlpore more Friendship quotes

"Men are only as great as they are kind."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Friendship, Men

"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Friendship, Help, Word

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Friendship, Love, Truth, First

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Friendship, Sympathy, Soul, Concern, Giving

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Friendship, Government, Friend

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Friendship, Friend

"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Friendship, Men, Friends, World

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Friendship, Friend

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

Stephen King, American Author

Friendship, Truth, Lie, Duty, Enemies

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

Warren Buffett, American Businessman

Friendship, Friend, Enemy, Folly, Profit