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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 16, 1951

We want to keep trying, because I really think we have barely scratched the surface.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Jul 3, 1951

Today, more than ever before, it is important that we continue to make progress in expanding our freedoms and improving the opportunities of our citizens.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Jan 6, 1943

We fight to retain a great past- and we fight to gain a greater future.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Jun 24, 1942

We are well on our way toward achieving the rate of production which will bring us to our goals.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Jun 8, 1942

I can say that on the whole it is getting on very well, but that is not terribly exciting.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Mar 10, 1942

With that combined strength we go forward along the steep road to victory.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Aug 7, 1931

The accomplishments of your associations over these many years have quickened the hopes of mankind.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· May 30, 1929

My only comment that I could properly make is that it is a very notable contribution to stability and to progress, and I think the American people should be gratified at the contribution which Messrs. [Owen D.] Young, [John Pierpont]…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 12, 1929

It is progress of and service of a nation in the upbuilding of the institutions of freedom; its contribution to the growth of liberty, the development of humane relations, the advancement of the individual man--which measures the soul and…

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Dec 11, 1928

No achievement of man in the progress of civilization has had a more rapid expansion.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Sep 20, 1926

The conservation of man power and material wealth from such destruction is a challenge to the progress of our civilization.

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Bill Taft
@billtaft· Republican · OH· Nov 7, 1909

I hesitate to occupy your time in discussing an old method of transporting goods when you have before your eyes the newest one invented.

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