Quotes from US Presidents

Herbert Hoover  

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.  

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

 

Andrew Jackson  

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.  

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

 

Thomas Jefferson  

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.  

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

 

Andrew Johnson  

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.  

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

 

Lyndon B Johnson  

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.  

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

 

John F. Kennedy  

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.  

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

 

Abraham Lincoln  

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.  

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

 

James Madison  

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.  

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

 

William McKinley  

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.  

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

 

James Monroe  

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.  

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

 

Richard M. Nixon  

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.  

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

 

Barack Obama  

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.  

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

 

Franklin Pierce  

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.  

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

 

Ronald Reagan  

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.  

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt  

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.  

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

 

Theodore Roosevelt  

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.  

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

 

William Howard Taft  

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.  

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

 

Zachary Taylor  

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

 

Harry S. Truman  

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.  

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

 

John Tyler  

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.  

I can never consent to being dictated to.

 

George Washington  

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.  

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

 

Woodrow Wilson  

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.  

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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