Famous quotes by Presidents

"The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men"

James Buchanan, President

"I like the noise of democracy"

James Buchanan, President

"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there"

James Buchanan, President

"Australia's diversity is a strength. It makes us better, it makes us stronger"

Anthony Albanese, President

"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word"

Andrew Johnson, President

"Science and technology have transformed the world we live in, and we must ensure that we use them to serve humanity and make our world a better place"

Abdullah Gul, President

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict, the man before the dollar"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free"

Ronald Reagan, President

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination"

Ronald Reagan, President

"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet"

Ronald Reagan, President

"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts"

Ronald Reagan, President

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

Ronald Reagan, President

"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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